but nobody "owns" the internet. If large internet providers charge in the manner you suggest, other providers will just sprout. Plus if many providers get together to "screw" the people, that could be considered colusion. I'm not worried about the internet changing anytime soon.

06/01/2008 - Every significant Internet provider around the globe is currently in talks with access and content providers to transform the internet into a television-like medium: no more freedom, you pay for a small commercial package of sites you can visit and you'll have to pay for seperate subscriptions for every site that's not in the package.

Almost all smaller websites/services will disappear over time and multinationals who are used to using big budgets to brute force their content into every media outlet will finally be able to approach the internet in the same way.

http://ipower.ning.com/netneutrality