Well, just when you think the government or a business doesn't have any more ways  that they can manipulate   more money out of you, they fool you.

I read on the 'Huffington Post' where Time Warner (and soon to be Comcast) are thinking of charging you for "EXCESS" bandwidth usage. They say that 95% of the people that use the internet are normal users, but that the other 5% use way more than their share.

Time Warner has started a 'beta' program with over 100,000 new internet customers in Texas, where they have different packages that a person can sign up to. Then, for every 1 gigebyte that the person goes over their package limit they will be charged $1 per gig of extra bandwidth for the month.

I know that if you have a windmill, say a turbine one, that you can sell unused killowatts that the windmill produces that you don't use back to the electric companies.

Now, what happens if the package that I get from Time Warner is for X amount of monthly bandwidth and I don't use it all, "Will I be able to sell my unused portion back to them, which is just the opposite of them charging me for using more than my package alots me? I doubt it.

They say the 5% that are using more than their share (who figures out what a share is) are doing it by p2p sharing or downloading and watching movies on their pc.

I wonder what the advertisers are going to do when these people stop using their service (NetFlix) because of the extra money they have to pay for bandwidth?

5% may not sound like a lot of people, but there are well over 500,000,000 internet users, so 5% of that is approximately 10,000,000 abusers. LOL

Just think what kind of impact this would make if most of these people just stopped using the services. In my opinion all hell will break loose between the advertisers and the internet providers.

I think this little move that the internet providers are beta testing is going to be very interesting.

So, here we go again.