A decade or so ago, back when 256kbps was the average cable speed and there were caps for international traffic here in Portugal, our ISP had something called Happy Hours, which meant that all usage between 1-9am didn&#x27;t count for the cap.<p>We didn&#x27;t &quot;plan which movie we were going to watch tomorrow&quot;, we just marked them for download (on locally-adapted forks of P2P software like eMule, with time&#x2F;IP range filters) whenever we found an interesting one, and then we&#x27;d have 20-30 to choose from when we actually felt like watching a movie. And we could still watch a different one, it was just somewhat more &quot;expensive&quot;.<p>It was far from a dystopian scenario, and frankly I wouldn&#x27;t mind returning to that model if it could save me 20% on my bill.