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But this isn't about how much data a consumer uses- it is possible to consume large amounts of data as a client or a server.

This is a greater problem about the limits on a egalitarian Internet. In the Great Firewall/SOPA/NSA/Mega-scandal world we live in, it is fundamental that users should be able to share content from private, ordinary connections. This is what the Internet was about, remember? People sharing information, not "people uploading information to Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Apple/Twitter".

Decentralization is the Internet's greatest strength.




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