Not responding to your post...just looking at things from "the other side" since so many folks are wanting something for nothing and feel that Verizon and Comcast runs charities and should dole out their infrastructures without compensation. Back to reality....Verizon and Comcast run businesses and have a fiduciary obligation to earn a profit and maximize gains for their shareholders. Most of us probably have cable and telecom stocks in our retirement portfolios.
Folks always have the option of getting video selections delivered via the post office instead of sucking-up all the infrastructure bandwidth the Verizons and Comcasts paid tens of billions of dollars to build, all the while killing performance for other customers who pay just as much for their service, while using it for far-less bandwidth-choking applications like telephone, video games, email and web browsing. Sorry! When I watch Comcast and FiOS VOD I'm streaming video using a separate 6Mhz channels of cable spectrum dedicate for this purpose, for paying customers...instead of clogging the cable headenes and telephone switching offices Internet pipelines with millions of these video streams. I'm all in favor of Netflix paying Cable/Telcos to use dedicated spectrum for steaming video. Oterwise, Netflix customers should get steaming video when it doesn't interfere with Verizon/Comcast's business and technical operations. If they don't like it...customers can sign-up with another Internet provider and/or ask Netflix to build their own fiber/copper network.
I'm being somewhat facetious, but the only way net-neutrality works is if the Internet is regulated. Unfortunately, this means heavily regulated where usage will be metered (and taxed), video will be metered (and taxed again) and online transactions will also be monitored (and taxed, and taxed, and taxed on a federal, state and local level). Then everyone will be crying about the good old days and asking why Netflix, and others, didn't keep their yaps shut and pay their fair-share.
Just my two cents...