Some of us are already dealing with that on some level ("Can't get a PPTP or IPSEC connection to your office? Might be because your cheap broadband provider blocks them. We know {ISPs 1,2,3} do").<p><i>Suddenly the web loses what makes it unique and innovative.</i><p>In the same way it lost every endpoint has an IP and can participate equally when NAT came along, and all traffic is equal when spam led to port 25 blocks.<p>Fast large content does now need some kind of dedicated CDN network which costs more, or in scientific/academic circles GRID and academic backbone connections. And who can compete on equal footing when serving content to more people costs more? We're all depending on the likes of Youtube to swallow hosting costs that we wouldn't want to or couldn't pay. When 100Mb connections are common in some countries and others struggle for 2Mb and others for reliable dialup.