The critical issue to me is that my local government has granted a duopoly to my telephone and cable providers to provide broadband to my house. One could argu

The critical issue to me is that my local government has granted a duopoly to my telephone and cable providers to provide broadband to my house. One could argue that I also get 3G coverage and the possibility of high latency satellite, but, for practical purposes, I have two options. I'm a small L libertarian and would have no problem with network providers "innovating" by moving to a back-end revenue model except that this is not a free market situation. My local government has granted this companies near exclusive rights to shake me down. And now, thanks to this most recent court ruling, they can sell premium access to my house (Edit: meaning that they can sell others, like Disney, the semi-exclusive right to deliver high-bandwidth content). I actually blame my local government for this. I believe the contracts with the phone/cable companies require local approval of rate plans, but I doubt they place stipulations on access discrimination as a revenue model. Perhaps I should lobby my local councilperson and not my congressman?