Sure, most of my network usage comes from P2P and I am only a casual user of P2P. These numbers seem plausable on network usage amounts. But, I for one would not have an internet connection at home if it was not for P2P. So don't act like I haven't already paid for my service please.

And as for tiered service, you have bought the corporate partyline con hook line and sinker. Tiered service is what they do when they have different connection speeds, if they advertise an unlimited 10mbit line, the end user should be able to utilize that as much as they want – it's the service they paid for. Hidden "fair usage policies" could probably be proven illegal if someone wanted to invest enough money into it. It's like saying "Unlimited gasoline!" and then denying the service to long distance commuters via a fair use policy after they already paid for it.

Final note, "net neutrality" AKA "common carrier" by a different name. This is already enshrined in law for good reasons with "common carrier" regulations. ISPs say google eats all their bandwidth without paying for it, but this is such an outrageous misdirection it's unbelievable. When you rent YOUR connection from YOUR ISP you pay for the connection because you like services from… google. Without google (and other free service providers), the internet would be a steaming pile of geek turd and undigested advertising without any practical use whatsoever. So not only are they trying to charge twice now for the same thing, they are effectively saying that your money doesn't buy you the right to access anything. Unbelievable it has even got this far. The unfortunate truth is top level policy makers are probably far better at getting themselves into top positions than making decisions and they may well allow the internet to fracture. Campaign for net neutrality and save the internet from becoming ad-shit.

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What is “p2p”? it could mean so many things… dumb.