US FCC Net Neutrality Rules

My take on the FCC rules that came out last week:

"No big deal". It basically keeps things as they as now.  If you think of all Internet connections as pipes, you have a garden hose going to your house.  A company like NetFlix has a lot of 40 inch water mains connecting to their servers.  What these rules do is stop ISPs from charging one person with a garden hose connection, any more or less, based on how full it is on average.  The same for companies with larger pipes.

I don't mean to equate an intangible thing like data, to an actual commodity, like water, it's more to provide something that can be visualized.  This heads off ISPs plans to start charging a base fee (what you pay today) and increase that charge based on your usage.  So if two people have identical Internet connections, the one who watches a lot of video, won't pay more than someone who does not.
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2010/db1221/DOC-303745A1.pdf