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SvennoJ on 24 April 2014
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*Sound Of Rain said:
SvennoJ said:

Without net neutrality your isp can charge you different rates for different content, deliver content at different speeds or even block access to certain content. Your isp could make a deal with Amazon video and block Netflix. Basically it could become the same as how a cable provider works, different sports packs etc.

It's already a grey area, Netflix has been signing deals to 'help' isps with traffic using Netflix open connect. You can only get their 8 mbps Super HD and Super 3D if your ISP works with Netflix.

How does this change gaming? 

What Mr Khan said. Yet it would be more along the line of ISPs charging big data providers for transporting their data at a faster rate. So it's not Sony telling the ISP to throttle MS and Nintendo, but the ISP telling Sony to pay up to give their data priority. The result is the same anyway, and the costs are transferred to the customer. Meaning digital downloads will have a download fee added onto their price.
Sony already did this last gen by charging publishers for hosting their data on psn, which resulted in less demos on PSN. MS charged consumers with xbox live to pay for data hosting costs. So either ps+ and xbox live will get more expensive, or digital games and movies will.