After reading all the news about the FCC's plan on net neutrality, I have come to conclusion that the FCC has finally made a good decision to protect consumers and attempt to bring competition to the market.
It could have huge implications on the future of the monopolistic ISP companies that currently control and throttle bandwidth of its customers. Some ISPs are throttling based on torrent traffic, but not all torrent traffic is illegal. The protocol is used for perfectly legal torrents all the time—although it looks like 'legal torrents' has changed their name to 'clearbits' to move away from the torrents-being-illegal stigma.
Reading through the Wall Street Journal's article on the subject, its so funny to read the Cable Company and ISP lobbyists bitch about incurring extra costs on their network if the FCC gets their way. Boo-hoo, its not like the ISPs wouldnt just pass those extra costs onto consumers…Then, we, as consumers, might be able to make a choice on which ISP we go with (instead of just having to deal with horrible customer service, downtime, slow innovation, high prices and a huge list of negative impacts that monopolies create for consumers).
