[KarlInOhio]

A lot of good technical information, but I think he sweeps under the rug the financial desires of the ISPs to kill any competing way of getting information for free which the ISP is selling. VOIP competes with both the phone and cable companies' phone service. Videos on P2P compete with the caable (and recently also phone) companies' video on demand and sometimes DVDs from parent companies.

Put a price on the users' total bandwidth usage (and allow them an easy way to track it) and suddenly people won't find it so desireable to download and host hundreds of movies and songs.

[TChris]

A lot of good technical information, but I think he sweeps under the rug the financial desires of the ISPs to kill any competing way of getting information for free which the ISP is selling. VOIP competes with both the phone and cable companies' phone service. Videos on P2P compete with the caable (and recently also phone) companies' video on demand and sometimes DVDs from parent companies.

I agree with you, but I don't think those desires are a bad thing.

A company should be free to restrict its own services that may weaken demand from more profitable business. Customers are free to change ISPs or drop their service if they so choose.

If another ISP wants to invest in the infrastructure to compete with the telcos and cable companies, offering completely unrestricted access, it is certainly free to do so.