I'm somewhat interested in the tools, to see how the internet would route around the problem.
One idea would be to make a browser that can 'leech' off sites that paid for fast lanes. Say, you store your data onto Google Drive, Facebook, etc and the browser will load the actual content off of these services and present it as if it were its own unique web site, stripping off all of the host site's branding. I won't say that's necessarily ethical, but it does feel like an inevitable consequence if things ever got really bad.
You'd probably gain web hosts that advertise having peering deals for all of their hosted sites, so you just pay more money to host on them and your users "magically" get faster service.
VPNs would likely play in a lot. I'm not sure how businesses would tolerate their required secure connections being throttled in the extreme.
I wonder if a VPN service provider could pay for a fast connection to your ISP, giving you a link around it? Perhaps instead of Netflix at 100% speed, $tinywebsite at 20% speed, this could give you 70% speed across the board by connecting you with a neutral backbone.
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I think it will need to get rather bad, before people will act. Before that any tools made would be used.
I'm somewhat interested in the tools, to see how the internet would route around the problem.
One idea would be to make a browser that can 'leech' off sites that paid for fast lanes. Say, you store your data onto Google Drive, Facebook, etc and the browser will load the actual content off of these services and present it as if it were its own unique web site, stripping off all of the host site's branding. I won't say that's necessarily ethical, but it does feel like an inevitable consequence if things ever got really bad.
You'd probably gain web hosts that advertise having peering deals for all of their hosted sites, so you just pay more money to host on them and your users "magically" get faster service.
VPNs would likely play in a lot. I'm not sure how businesses would tolerate their required secure connections being throttled in the extreme.
I wonder if a VPN service provider could pay for a fast connection to your ISP, giving you a link around it? Perhaps instead of Netflix at 100% speed, $tinywebsite at 20% speed, this could give you 70% speed across the board by connecting you with a neutral backbone.