In the decision handed down today the FCC did slap Comcast on the wrist, but set the ground work for ISPs to make the decisions as to whether your internet usage is lawful.

"We also note that because consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice, providers, consistent with federal policy, may block transmissions of illegal content (e.g., child pornography) or transmissions that violate copyright law. To the extent, however, that providers choose to utilize practices that are not application or content neutral, the risk to the open nature of the internet is particularly acute and the danger of network management practices being used to further anticompetitive ends is strong."

I would be concerned if I was an ISP that if I started to filter some 'illegal' activity, that I would be liable if I didn't filter all of it.  Why can't we leave the job of law enforcement to the government agencies set up to do this.  This is really more ammunition to allow unlimited spying on individuals in their own home by large corporations.

Read Wired for their analysis of the new intrusive ISPs.  And Alley Insider's assessment of what a new bandwidth throttled world will be like.