Hah! I remember that too! I remember telling my parents “Come on let’s get it there’s no commercials!” Now out of a 1000 channels maybe one or two are commercial free. That’s the money angle, anytime money is involved eventually the rules are going to change no matter what they say. That’s why this stuff of the FCC getting involved in the internet is such a scam, it goes without saying eventually they’re going to go after the money. A license to run a website, taxes, fines, you name it.
Content delivery networks will carry over half of Internet traffic by 2018. Fifty-five percent of all Internet traffic will cross content delivery networks by 2018 globally, up from 36 percent in 2013. Global IP traffic will reach 1.1zettabytes per year or 91.3 exabytes per month in 2016.
Globally, IP video traffic will be 79 percent of all consumer Internet traffic in 2018, up from 66 percent in 2013. This percentage does not include video exchanged through peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing. The sum of all forms of video (TV, video on demand [VoD], Internet, and P2P) will be in the range of80to 90 percent ofglobal consumer traffic by 2018.
Obviously streaming services don't foot the bill for the cost of buildout and infrastructure, while their consumption of the network capacity will proliferate. Net nuetrality forbids a cost premium or a slowdown for big users, which will benefit the customers of streaming services which contribute only content.