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by X-Istence 5192 days ago
Akamai and other CDN's do exactly this. They buy closet space on the providers networks so that they are extremely close by and on the customers network, not outside of it. Use anycast, and DNS that directs you to the closest site and you are no longer touching the public internet...

Akamai and other CDN's pay for this privilege to Comcast, and Comcast still counts those downloads against the users bandwidth cap...