" That situation changed with the PS3 on October 1 of last year, when Sony implemented a 16 cents per Gigabyte fee to publishers for paid and free downloadable content, according to publishing sources familiar with Sony’s policy."

This doesn't directly affect a consumer's experience, though, unless they increase the price of paid content by 16 cents .  But really, Sony is hurting right now and they need every penny they can get.

I'm not saying they don't charge them, but it doesn't change the publishers mindset, they just pass the cost on. Instead of the DLC being $2. It is $2.50.

People know Microsoft does this to right? Live is P2P, and if a game uses P2P, it's free for the developer, but games which use dedicated servers, such as left 4 dead, need to pay ALL cost of the servers. As well as XBL licensing fees are more per game on the marketplace, though they don't charge for bandwidth there.

“It definitely makes us think about how we view the distribution of content related to our games when it is free for us to do it on the web, on Xbox Live, or any other way — including broadcast —

It must really suck for games that use blu-ray which demos could be significantly bigger than DVD games.

 To be honest, I don't expect that to be an issue.  If you've got a 50gb game, you're likely not even going to attempt to put 5 gbs up as a demo.  You don't want to give players what amounts to 10% of the entire game for free.

Sony should allow publishers to host the demo's themselves, that would save Sony's costs, and would be cheaper for the game publishers.

Or they'll make the DLC 360 only...

That would be a ridiculous thing to even charge. even a large developer putting up 6-7 DLC items a year would be paying Sony less than $1. It wouldn't have been worth the cost of the lawyer to make the contract if that were the case.

not if they wanna sell games they wont.... selling and incompleted game that they need to patch later is a terrible trend that should have never been started.