If less than 5% are doing this and they're limiting the traffic for those users, then what the heck do we care about it to make a law for?
Because of their often monopoly position in an area they can arbitrarily violate user contracts and engage in false advertising. When they say 7 Mb/s that means 7 Mb/s. They try to hide the fact that they'll penalize you if you actually use what they advertise. Remember, what we know now about capping is only because people discovered the undisclosed caps, not because the companies freely admitted they were doing it.
The humorous thing is that when capping everyone, they will make the caps low, which will stop people on the lowest tier plans from watching all the youtube videos and downloading stuff that we're so righteously trying to protect now
Most people will never get close to the proposed caps I've seen. It would take a serious P2P downloader to go that far.
And as far as government regulation, there's the fact that the government has been in this from the beginning. The government started the Internet. The government granted these monopolies. The government gave billions in money, tax breaks and other considerations to these companies on the promise of 40 Mb/s to the curb years ago, and it hasn't materialized. So when they complain "these downloaders are taxing the system" I wonder what happened to all that upgrade money, remember their promises, and feel no pity.
Famous last words. They're not going to give up a possible revenue stream. In a few years, you'll be screaming for more government regulation to stop these companies from raping you for more and more money.
I wonder what happened to all that upgrade money, remember their promises, and feel no pity.
You'll feel plenty of something when you look at your internet bill after all is said and done. All to solve something that isn't even a real problem...