FWIW, I think this has always been the &quot;sticking point&quot;. ISPs don&#x27;t actually want to do quite the horrible things that people are concerned they will one day do (though maybe in some cases they want to come close), but they do want to figure out how to manage the situation of &quot;50% of traffic is coming from Netflix, and Netflix would like to give me some cheaper way of letting all of my customers have access to their product, whether in the form of a cache appliance or a direct network connection to their headquarters; I thereby want to be able to charge people differently for Netflix traffic than for other traffic&quot;. It then becomes a philosophical question as to whether you consider this to be a bad thing or not, but this is absolutely the core question: are peering agreements made with content providers who own networks morally in the right? I think the shit actually hits the fan not with companies like Comcast and T-Mobile but with companies like Facebook and Wikimedia: content providers who heavily invest in networks rather than networks who are bound to old content providers.