said by BF69:Since obviously that's the better system.
Do you remember being always told to turn off the lights or close the door? Or perhaps you tell people that yourself. Why? Because you are paying per kilowatt. If your electric company charged you one rate you wouldn't care how much you used. Would that be a good thing? No of course not.
Metered bandwidth would make people aware of how much they are actually using.
it makes BitTorrent or any kind of peer-to-peer networking cost prohibitive.
Yeha and that's bad? So it's more expensive to steal the latest HD version of a movie instead of paying for it like you should. So what.
Go to hell. Seriously. People who use BT or know how to actually use their connection to its fullest extent do NOT MAKE THEM PIRATES. TV isn't metered, so neither should the net. Metering the net would drastically change the entire system, especially in the direction it is heading with VOIP and IPTV.
