This feels very much like the kind of thing Marc Andreessen would complain about. Whatever the original good intent government created a monopoly or duopoly in many markets for cable companies. So now we have a lack of competition. Now we need more government regulation on top of the regulation in place to fix the original problem. It seems to me that sites like NetFlix are artificially cheap because they're subsidized by all websites and end users paying into the internet access pool and that artifical cheapness results in? Higher usage which in turn drags down the overall performance of ISP's.