this could have some insidious side-effects ... from
(snip)"WASHINGTON—A federal appeals court on Tuesday opened the way for broadband providers to charge content companies for faster speeds, striking down federal rules that had required equal treatment of Internet traffic.
The ruling threw into turmoil a top priority of the Federal Communications Commission during the Obama administration and suggested that if the FCC wanted to revive its rules, it might have to regulate broadband Internet like it has long regulated phone companies. ***
Verizon wants the ability to charge content companies for faster connections with their end users. The ruling could cause headaches for companies like Netflix Inc., which doesn't want to pay broadband providers extra to deliver its popular movie-streaming service to consumers. ***
Tuesday's ruling marked the second time the appeals court has taken issue with the FCC's net neutrality efforts. The court in 2010 ruled the FCC exceeded its authority when it sanctioned Comcast Corp. for slowing Web traffic to some customers who were downloading large files on peer-to-peer file sharing services."(snip)
The take-away from this ( second ) Appeals Court Ruling is that earlier FCC rules which forced internet backbone / access providers to charge customers the same price within the same service 'class', regardless of the total bandwidth being used and regardless of average data transfer speeds, are no longer 'legal'. As pointed out in the news blurb, this is likely to result in Netflix and its customers now being charged a higher price by internet service providers than 'average' internet users ... being charged the higher prices because they typically wind up using much higher total bandwidth, thus far above average data transfer speeds ( based on many more continuous hours of high bandwidth data transfer ), than 'typical' internet service customers.
The side-effect, of course, is that HD webcam streaming camgirls and HD webcam customers are typically using even MORE total bandwidth, thus even higher average data transfer speeds, than Netflix !!! Thus, if Verizon, Comcast, and other internet service providers are now allowed to reduce average data transfer speeds, are allowed to cut off data transfer after a certain monthly bandwidth threshold has been reached, etc., this may translate into camgirls and webcam customers having to pay higher monthly prices for a higher 'class' of internet service to continue transmitting and receiving high bandwidth HD webcam streams for extended periods.



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