as much of a pessimist as I am, I highly doubt much of the doomsday scenario will come to pass. Comcast and Verizon will likely spend a lot of time and energy s

as much of a pessimist as I am, I highly doubt much of the doomsday scenario will come to pass. Comcast and Verizon will likely spend a lot of time and energy staying JUST on this side of the FCC's ire, because the FCC will always have the "nuclear option" of reclassifying the ISPs as common carriers. Besides, ISPs degrade/prioritize traffic all the time through management of peering relationships. All they have to do is fail to adequately upgrade the servers that communicate with Netflix to cause congestion while at the same time spending lots of resources making sure their peering relationship with Hulu is top-notch. This would create much faster Hulu traffic relative to Netflix traffic on provider's network, but all of the traffic is still reaching the end-user in the same manner, i.e. it's still "net-neutral". The only real solution here is the common carrier reclassification because the only real problem is the last-mile-monopoly. Everything else is just business.