The Cheezy Blog

Bram Cohen, the dude behind the BitTorrent protocol has teamed up with CacheLogic to develop a Cache Discovery Protocol that will let a BitTorrent client that supports it find local copies of the file you’re trying to download hosted by a provider such as your ISP. The idea behind it is that, instead of throttling BitTorrent because of all the bandwidth accross the ISPs border, the ISP can host legal / commercial torrents locally, thus saving on bandwidth usage and giving faster speeds for the downloader.

Of course Illegal downloads won’t ever be cached, so they can end up throttled to hell and back still.

Read the article on Torrent Freak.