Something that seems to have been forgotten here is that “every user” is supposed to have full “Absolute Copyright” over the use of their own data. (that does not include the ISP).

The interaction is always a personal one between the User & the Website, & eavesdropping in “any” form has always been frowned on for very good reasons!

The only case for temporarily overriding these basic principles is for possible National Security reasons or to monitor illegal activities when properly warranted!

Already you are seeing the row with BellCanada and throttling as a means to manage what is there and not actually improve the hardware for the net. The idea that they have to manage the connection, is a sign they have far over sold their resources. Resources that appear to be more than adequate at the upper levels but not at the last mile where the bottleneck is. The throttling has not improved that bottleneck nor will it ever; it actually contributes to even more congestion.

The real problem is that there is no competition for these telecoms to force them to spend the money to upgrade. Nor is there a clear direction in the form of government intervention that directs these telecoms to improve their services. Make no mistake one should be in place because it is the government that granted them the monopoly in the first place. Because of that grant, the government not only has the right, it has the responsibility to see to it that the monopoly meets the requirements of it’s citizens.

All this fancy dancing around the problem is the telecoms ways of saying feed us more money. The advertisers are throwing money at the telecoms to get a foot in the door. Money the telecoms will gladly take if they can just make it compatible to their users. One of the big problems with this is that NebuAd/Pharm is a tainted company, owned by the same parent company, that used to serve up malware and spyware. They have not changed their spots. They have changed which side of the mouth they speak out of. It is that serving up of malware/spyware that has allowed them the technology to be so intrusive.

The telecoms are being greedy and doing their best to manage the net under the aspect of a scarcity model, applicable to a physical world but not a digital one. It has become apparent to the thinkers of the population it isn’t working and soon that will pass down to us less cerebral members exactly what is wrong with this model. It is forums such as this all along the internet that is spreading this word. You aren’t seeing it in lamescream media where their model is the same.