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Also so they can upsell business internet. I'm pretty sure most ISPs still have a clause in residential service agreements that you won't "operate a server" and everyone knows that the only reason you'd be uploading a lot is if you're running a server. /s

One might say that the state of the art has been chained up with awful upload speeds. Where you can think of one possible application, I can think of more, and undoubtedly there are even more that don't occur to people because it doesn't enter their experience. Being able to do practical off-site backups from home, even snapshots on an hourly basis? That'd be the dream. Oh wait, I'm doing that now because I have 1 gigabit/sec upstream at home!

It's also worth mentioning that Comcast is one of the largest "traditional" media corporations on Earth, and is therefore heavily motivated to act against media sharing (piracy).

Everything about their business outside internet service is built to be a vertical integration, so it's only natural to use their ISP business arm to support that.