Recently alot of talks have been going about it.What if it happened and we were made to pay for subscriptions to particular sites.

I hope this day never comes

currently, you still have to pay to go to many certain porno sites i believe XD

like that.. kinda

plus what I heard was what was said below, is Youtube is expensive, (I think that was the main target), thus companies are trying to weasel their way out of allowing high bandwidth sites. However When the internet was first invented you payed for bandwitdth anyways by prodviders before the days of AOL and such. Long long time ago, before it was cool.Not saying this way is the way it should be though.

Huh, I'm confused, doesn't net neutrality just mean that all traffic is treated equal?  ie: no traffic shaping, throttling, etc of stuff like torrents?

net neutrality is like we access net now,we just pay ISP's and can access any istes.

if it is removed then we will have to pay subscription fee like we pay for TV channel,a group of 5-10 sites for $5 and then another group ofr $5 or a collection of 100 sites for 50$.

And yes torrents will be throtled or probably stopped.

Network neutrality is the principle that all kinds of traffic over Internet infrastructure (HTTP, Torrents, streaming TV, VoIP, etc.) should recieve equal priority of transmission. The argument is that if this is not enforced then ISPs will charge unreasonable prices for certain kinds of traffic, or speed up preferentially the traffic of big companies who can afford to pay large incentives to do so, or block certain protocols regardless of whether the traffic is legal, or (really really bad), slow down their competitor ISPs' traffic simply because they are competitors.

The FCC is in favour of network neutrality and intends to enforce it on US ISPs, by legislation or regulation, as soon as possible.

None of that refers to subscriptions to sites at all.

That would ruin the net

I pray to God that this never happens. We already know they rip us off on TV subscription packages. Net neutrality FTW!

However, as far as I'm aware... the EU has bounced around an Idea of making the Internet like Cable.  Where they make you pay for certain websites... or they give you a "basics website" plan with stuff like ESPN etc, while you are forced to pay for other websites like pay channels etc...

Kinda like what Google was doing in China.

Want to go to minor websites?  Gotta pay us.

@Kasz216
You are right, the EU did talk about that but as far as I am aware it ended in nothing or at least left public opinion, it seems it's only ISPs and EU government that even thought it was a good idea.

If it did happen say good buy to 95% of websites around the world because people just wouldn't pay for stuff like that and those website can't afford to pay the money to get into the top price band.

It's a joke that anyone even considered it.