> Because at the moment s/he is bearing the cost of abusive users. There is nothing abusive about using that which you paid for. If you sell me a 100mpbs pipe,

> Because at the moment s/he is bearing the cost of abusive users. There is nothing abusive about using that which you paid for. If you sell me a 100mpbs pipe, I should be able to use that pipe 24/7. Of course, the reality is that it would be expensive to make sure everyone could use their 100mbps pipe 24/7, so ISPs sensibly over-provision to save money. But ISPs miscalculating their provisioning requirements (or as it appears in most cases, simply grubbing for money), is not the end-users fault and not the end-users problem and it does not mean that they are doing anything abusive.