Still, it does points to a fundamental flaw of centralized services such as YouTube. If people had symmetric bandwidth to begin with, had their own web site, a

Still, it does points to a fundamental flaw of centralized services such as YouTube. If people had symmetric bandwidth to begin with, had their own web site, and distributed their bigger files (such as videos) through a a peer-to-peer publication protocol (such as bit-torrent), then things such as DMCA would cause no problem. Now, we would still need aggregators and search engines. But those only point the way, which is even harder to prevent.