TOMPAINE.com - The Death Of The Internet How Industry Intends To Kill The 'Net As We Know It

To achieve this, the cable industry, which sells Internet access to most Americans, is pursuing multiple strategies to closely monitor and tightly control subscribers and their use of the net. One element can be seen in industry lobbying for new use-based pricing schemes, which has been widely reported in trade press. Related to this is the industry’s new public relations campaign, which seeks to introduce a new "menace" into the pricing debate and boost their case, the so-called "bandwidth hog."

At this time, I am not convinced this is a plan to put internet radio and mpd downloaders out of business and destroy new broadband technologies as the writer thinks.