It's started..charging for time on the Internet

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I had heard about this last spring and then nothing ...until now. Comcast is the first ISP to start charging for time on the internet. Article says 99% won't be effected by this new "Threshold" (fancy for saying price increase!) but if nearly their entire membership won't be effected, what's the problem? I understand what they are saying as to some "over using" or abusing the internet system, but still...if 99% are not over using, why increase it to so few? Could it be because it is the first step in their plan to increase it to all by this time next year.. Then it says that Comcast over sold their network as to the reason for this - well, why is that our fault! Okay, I'd venture to say this won't effect me and many others like me - just home uses, I have no idea how much "time" is 250 GB, but I doubt I use that much,(does mylot, emails and PTC use that much?. And although I might be tagged as cynical, history has a way of repeating itself and it just looks like increases to the internet are on their way...ergo Time Warner Cable doing the same come January http://news.yahoo.com/story//nm/20080829/wr_nm/comcast_internet_dc So how will this effect your internet use? Granted if you don't have Comcast it won't effect you right now, but once one major entity increases their rates, users will go elsewhere and that will increase their rates - just like a can of corn cost double today what it did last year cause of the oil prices this past year...will internet access start going up? Do we need to re-work our budgets to include the higher expense or just turn of our PC's? ANd that might be something to come too - retaliation. If the world turns off their PC's for a week - and doesn't use the ISP's - hum...wonder the fiasco that'd cause! Wonder if it'd help?! What is your take or knowledge on all this?