Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like

Imagine it as "I want to have a http://foo/~me/ http://foo/~me/ type path where I can park 5 TB of stuff and other people can fetch from it when they feel like it". 5 TB of data made available, not 5 TB of transfer/bandwidth/etc.