[trothamel]

The absurdity of this become apparent when you realize that Netflix has code running on both sides of the connection. Netflix could easily modify its client-side code to upload random data of the same size as the content it's downloading, or whatever size is necessary to ensure settlement-free peering.

Verizon is in the process of switching to all-symmetric connections, so this is a little less absurd than it was a week ago.