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And because of this, these mirrors are often non https so your ISP can actually intercept and provide the data to you directly.

This is why torrents would actually work fine in this model.

ISP can actually intercept and provide the data to you directly

What a nice gesture! However my mirror-servers are https plus rsync (for some projects). But are there not some ISP's that block torrent-traffic completely?

BitTorrent is hard to block completely from my understanding of how the protocol works, but I may be wrong.

Unless you can break the SHA1 hashes for the torrent chunks and the global hash torrents also authenticate the content. If you have a valid "info" dictionary at least.

Where intercept usually means point DNS for the mirror domains to the ISP's local mirror, and ISP could mean your cloud provider.

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