Twitch has downgraded its streaming quality in South Korea, citing the rise in operational costs in the country as the reason. Twitch confirmed that it has explored peer to peer (P2P) technologies as a workaround, but says these require more testing before they could be implemented. Unsurprisingly, there is more to this than initially meets the eye – with ISPs waiting to file lawsuits. It appears that a 2016 government decision has led to this tipping point. That was the year when a revision for the Interconnection Standards for Telecommunication Facilities was enacted, which essentially required the country’s big three ISPs (SK Broadband, Korea Telecom, and LG U+) to pay their rivals’ additional peering costs, and culminated in the targeting…