[awalton]

It's really, really easy for ISPs to just start making peer-to-peer connections of any kind slower than molasses while making white listed IPs from people who've paid the "High Speed Lane" tax travel at normal speeds.

That kills your "Hey use a VPN/Tor/Other-Alternative-Routing-Mechanism" ideas dead.

If you could manage to tunnel traffic through [Huge Internet Company], like if they started offering a VPN service, then maybe... but there's not a lot of incentive for any of them to host such a service. It'd almost be cheaper for them to build their own, second Internet altogether at that point - something I'm sure Google is kicking themselves over on the Google Fiber scaleback.