There seems to be an ongoing debate surrounding the prioritization of internet bandwidth and whether or not priority access to greater bandwidth should able to be paid for. What the net neutrality advocates are overlooking is the big picture.
In The Singularity Is Near, Ray Kurzweil illustrates that the following characteristics of the internet are true:
Wireless Internet and phone services price performance (increasing exponentially)
Number of Internet hosts (increasing exponentially)
Bytes of Internet traffic (increasing exponentially)
Internet backbone bandwidth (increasing in a very terraced, quasi-exponential manner)
I fail to see how attempting to charge for priority access to bandwidth have any impact on the internet as a whole over the long term. In the short term, some of the small people may be short changed while big corporations pay for the best access. But over the long term, there will be more than enough virtually free bandwidth available than we could ever use.
