If you ask me: The ISPs want a business model like the print newspapers and magazines have (rapidly declining) -- get their money from both ends -- the reader's cost per copy and the advertisers rates. Change the parties to viewer and originating website owner -- same thing really.

Quote:

[ N]etflix represents one-third of all downstream traffic, followed by YouTube with 18 percent. A new report from Canadian Internet monitoring firm Sandvine says video streaming accounts for more than 53 percent of all downstream traffic in North America. Netflix represents the lion's share of that traffic at 31.62 percent. YouTube trails with 18.69 percent but still accounts for the second-highest amount of traffic. The top two Internet streaming sites now represent more than half of all downstream traffic. ... http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/new...nternet-655203

They will pass the ball off to the originators and let them raise their price to consumers -- Google's Youtube will raise the advertising rates and maybe offer a ''premium subscription service?''

After they get the first tier traffic originators to pay a tariff for "preferred transit" they will go after backbone providers' profits. Datacenters lease carrier bandwidth so their costs will be effected.

What's next? A new Internet use tax so the federal government can enrich itself?

This will become political soon ...