http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080117/D8U7KREO0.html
TW looks to be moving away from the "all you can eat" unlimited downloads and moving towards a tiered system, charging more as user use more bandwidth.
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Dudley said that a small group of super-heavy users of downloads, around 5 percent of the customer base, can account for up to 50 percent of network capacity.
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Effectively, it is probably one of the best ways for these operators to shut down or limit people's desire to use P2P networks. I think that capped network usage may in the end be a boost to regular porn sites, because people may move away from the P2P networks to avoid paying excessive bandwidth bills.
This is also a move that would be a slap in the face to Skype, Joomla, and other P2P style file spreading / bandwidth leeching services. It also sort of flies into the face of the Apple movie distribution via Itunes.