You're confusing things a bit. Item 1) 'nor reason to charge extra for Netflix'. Of course there is a reason: QoS. You neighbour might want a low-latency, hig

You're confusing things a bit. Item 1) 'nor reason to charge extra for Netflix'. Of course there is a reason: QoS. You neighbour might want a low-latency, high bandwidth service that doesn't worry about packet loss. You might want a service which is better for downloads: no worries about latency, medium speed, no packet loss. Different prices for different services. Also - Netflix may choose to subsidize their service i.e. you don't even need an ISP bill with Netflix - it comes with the package. 2) Netflix, Debian, you and your neighbour are all paying different kinds of bills for different kinds of things. If Netflix's deal is that they get massive fast service until a certain threshold, after which their service is degraded ... when then users will see that degradation at their end. What cannot happen is ISPs arbitrarily charging Netflix more for no reason, or charging for different kinds of content. Everyone pays for a 'pipe' with different characteristics, ideally without price discrimination (i.e. if you want the same pipe as Netflix then you pay the same prices ass them), and that's that.