Net Neutrality ruling.. comments?

[Hell Puppy]

P2P is the first big potential loser here as that is what comcast was originally targetting. And they could give a rat's ass about the piracy issue there, what they hate is the excessive usage. When you have someone sucking down DVDs and simultaneously sharing them maxing out both inbound and outbound pipe the amount of data transferred is exponentially higher than the average consumer.

They want to be able to throttle it to protect their network. If everyone were doing it, their network would go to its knees. Same is true of just about any utility. No town could stand to have everyone turn on all of their water faucets at once.

What's scary here is it sets them up to operate more like the wireless telephone providers where you can charge different amounts for different types of service. And the cable companies LOVE that model as that's how they sell video. I could easily see them embracing a web-only tier with a "online video" add-on tier.