Almost the entire article is BS. We've ALWAYS had tiered broadband in Australia, and none of these things have happened. The one exception is Peak/Off-Peak usa

Almost the entire article is BS. We've ALWAYS had tiered broadband in Australia, and none of these things have happened. The one exception is Peak/Off-Peak usage. Yes, we schedule downloads after hours...but now with every ISP offering fairly healthy download caps, even that is a non-issue for most of us. It hasn't made me want to "buy" instead of "rent" video content. Peer to Peer is not sending us all broke. We aren't all caching our data at our front door. We don't expect every website to suddenly start compressing their JS scripts. We don't all project our monthly usage. And I most certainly aren't concerned about streaming. Most of the article is nonsense. The only REAL implication is that people who don't need to 500Gb of data, don't pay for 500Gb of data. Everyone else can. Probably the only side-effect of the limited downloads is certain ISPs offering "quota free" downloads. E.g. Bigpond customers can download Bigpond movies without being charged for the data. IINet has streaming TV, also without data being counted. But these are nothing more than "value adds".