More strange internet dealings happening that threatens the current web structure! Canadian ISPs have decided to put a hardcap on the amount of bytes people can use on the internet. They will offer tiered levels that give more space. What does this mean? This means that large downloads such as movie streaming or online content delivery (such as Steam) will be heavily less appetizing now. Furthermore, people just can't use the internet as freely as they want to!
Also people now will have a much better incentive to block ads to save bandwidth. What will this mean? Many free services will lose revenue that they otherwise would not be losing. This may be a huge issue in itself!
It is not unheard of for ISPs to block certain users for obscene amounts of data traffic (up in the terabytes). Comcast has gotten many complains about this from active peer to peer file sharers. However, this is the first time that an ISP has decided to cap the data flow at such a low level for everybody. This assumes that the outliers that actually affect the network are the common case which definitely is not true.
Yes this is not nearly as crazy as what is happening in Egypt right now but it certainly is quite a stir for the internet community. It may just blow over sometime soon but we'll see what happens.
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