No shit. You should see what its like in less developed european countries where you pay per mb/gb, some even with parking meter like contraptions for internet. It is all about the money. Basically what this rounds down to is websites (say columbus racing) aren't paying time warner or wow or whomever anything to let their content be delivered to their users. Well, CR makes money off ads, and the internet providers think they should get some of that money, so they want to charge an access charge to get to a number of websites. That's one of the underlying things behind all of this bullshit. Money. Greedy corporate fucks.
/drunkrant