What a non-neutral 'Net looks like, UK-style

Some truth here but mostly FUD. This is not really non-net neutrality in the typical sense.<p><i>Throttling of "heavy users," even those on unlimited monthly data plans? Check.</i><p>This is not inherently anti net neutrality. DSL providers have a certain amount of bandwidth and this has to be distributed out via users. There is no such thing as an "unlimited monthly data plan." They can <i>call</i> it that, but if everyone attempted to download a terabyte of data at once, everything would crawl to a halt. That's not a threat to net neutrality but basic bandwidth math!

There's an easy market solution for people who want traffic that this ISP is throttling - change your damn ISP. Notice that this solution involves no posturing politicians, no complex legislation, no costly enforcement, no restrictions on business. It's simple and effective. bt will quickly get the reputation as being the ISP for n00bs and will see themselves lose business, others will have an example in the flesh to disuade them from trying it on.

Is the BBC considering using end to end encryption for its iPlayer service? It seems to me that they could really stop a lot of this throttling in its tracks by preventing deep packet inspection.