Coming to an internet provider near you: Pay per packet...
Time Warner to test market
I actually like this idea more than ISPs doing Qos metering...Much less intrusive on your privacy.
I think this will catch on, especially as people become more accustomed to downloading movies and other huge bandwidth hogging activities.
They might scare away their bandwidth "hogs", but let the competition have the hogs...They cost you money if you can't charge them some sort of premium.