It isn’t flash or java on web pages, it’s video.
Hulu, Netflix streaming movies, MLB.TV, movie downloads.
Competition with other video services is the driving force behind the caps.
Why should I pay $100 per month for cable, when I can watch all the shows I want on the net? The MLB package is $169 per year on cable and $109 on the net. The online version shows all the games in HD while the cable version has low quality standard def.
Hulu shows current TV shows for free. Netflix streams movies and TV shows. There are a growing number of made for the net video shows.
Cable companies are losing customers to broadband video services. It’s under the radar right now, but like the loss of land line service to cellular, it will grow and drag down the cable providers.
But imagine if you were billed for Internet usage, just like Electical usage, where each MB downloaded cost more, you basically would have to offer a no-frills version of your site that only downloaded the least amount of data needed to do the task, it would be like the early days, where bandwidth was limited due to technical constraints, now it would be necessary to limit the expense to the website user.