[leath]

100% agree with you. We gave the ISPs more than enough time to get this under control, yet they don't seem to want to bear any cost in preventing what are essentially crimes (though as shown in the blog post cybercrimes are seen as a bit of a joke unless they cause monetary damages) taking place on their networks. If they are not willing to self-regulate it's the governments job to regulate them.

[seiferteric]

It's also telling that ISP's are fine with charging you per GB data you consume but apparently don't care about multi 10's GBS+ attacks that presumable consume tremendous amounts of bandwidth? I guess it says something about the true cost of data...

[greenreaper]

It is likely that they have plenty of spare outbound capacity, especially given how most home connections are asymmetric with respect to upstream.

As for their charging, that is called "value pricing" - what matters is the value to you, not the cost to them.