ISP's are usually monopoly's. Many towns offer no choice of who your ISP is. Further, they are asking their users to pay twice for service. e.g. you pay and expect to reach any vendor on the internet when you want to, but netflix is forced to pay additional money, which they get from their subscribers to provide the content that that they pay netflix for over the broadband that they are already paying comcast for. So comcast charges netflix extra money to allow their content to stream to the user who is already paying comcast to stream to them. Further, netflix provides a better HD experience than comcast provides, because comcast wants more money to provide the HD service, and their already charging almost $200 for internet and tv. Not to mention that they've managed to raise prices while providing worse service by avoiding the spirit of fcc mandates by encrypting content so that they don't need to provide hd content that they did have to provide prior to encrypting their service. And because they're a monopoly, you as a user don't have a choice. it's even illegal for a town to provide alternative broadband in some states.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
