[cashflyer]

I don't consider myself a bandwidth hog, but then again, I download a movie each week. As mentioned in the article, that amounts to between 1.5 to 8 gigs PER movie.

From the article, one of the two tiers they propose is $54.90 per month for fast downloads at 15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap.

That leaves no bandwidth for pr0n!!!



Now, let's look at this another way... follow the money, so to speak.
Time-Warner had a revenue sharing agreement with Blockbuster and was their online distributor for Blockbuster Video-On-Demand. I don't know if they still have the agreement or not, but I do have this recent data from Video Business (6/07) "Time Warner Cable has 14.7 million subscribers and claims the largest VOD penetration in the nation’s largest media markets."

I know cable VOD is not the same as online VOD - but my point is that T-W has a very strong revenue generator when they charge for the video stream, and charge for the bandwidth to stream it. They're double dipping!!