If you want a good look at what a non-neutral Internet looks like, take a gander at Australia where bandwidth caps are common. But Australian Internet service providers take the idea one step further by setting up partnerships with entertainment services and music download companies. Any data usage directed at one of these favored services doesn't count against the monthly bandwidth cap. This is quite clearly non-neutral behavior in any sense of the term. ISPs shape traffic when the quota is reached, meaning that all traffic to non-partner sites is slowed dramatically, while the favored services continue at full speed. This isn't an outright "blocking" of other websites, which can be freely accessed until the cap is reached, but the effect is quite similar. How are high-bandwidth services like video streaming going to compete against those services favored by an ISP? How will new players ever gain market share?
