As far as I know, the price regulation doesn't generally extend to internet connectivity (it's for voice lines)... except for the lowest tier connection they of

As far as I know, the price regulation doesn't generally extend to internet connectivity (it's for voice lines)... except for the lowest tier connection they offer (that mythical dry loop 768k line for $10/mo)... and the phone reps will actively deny that account option even exists unless you insist that you know it does. My guess is they want to start a content delivery system of some sort to sell music/video to a captive audience (their customers) and just want to prepare the ground for blocking out competing pirated content. This guy doesn't make the best argument in the world, but I think the privacy issues of this alone should kill it. Legal or illegal, I don't want some third party eavesdropping on everything I do online.