[Aliantha]

Isn't the internet really just a conglomeration of privately owned companies anyway? Really, when we pay our ISP for our access, we're also paying them to store our information such as emails, webpages, posts on message boards and any other digital information we look at during our surfing the net etc. This information is stored sometimes for a long time e.g. webpages which we've made using our server provided space, or a short time e.g. emails etc. It's all just information being transferred through ISP's who store the information and pass it on when requested.

I can't see how that's likely to change any time soon other than for larger ISP's to try and create a monopoly and therefore take advantage of us poor saps.