I am a pretty dense person, but after thinking long and hard about this post, I'm not exactly sure why it was modded funny. The post is 100% true, this is why CDNs like Akamai, Speedera, Digital-Island, etc. exist, to put the content closer to the end user. Having a p2p protocol that could download only from servers with a low number of hops would definately help alleviate net congestion which is rapidly increasing by use of p2p.