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Best approach is to get the legitimate newsgroups to follow the procedures and get themselves promoted to one of the legitimate realms.

How much money would they be willing to pay to ISPs to get them to not charge by the byte/not apply traffic shaping?

Expect that charging by the byte will provide the foundation for removal of traffic shaping. It wouldn't be to the service providers' benefit to continue traffic shaping if they get additional revenue from heavy users.

I think this is a misunderstanding. Rather, the companies offer service for a price, that price related to the value derived from the service.

Except that a finger has some utility, while alt.* newsgroups basically don't.

The cost for cable has nothing to do with the cost for high-speed Internet; they're two different services.

I read that some service providers have recently decided to do this because some of those other realms provide child pornography.

That's one of the reasons why charging by the byte is the way to go: Otherwise, broadband services end up having to carry the heavy weight of the cost of services that actually compete with them. That would be patently unfair. The only fair way to achieve net neutrality is to effect charging by...

When there is so much bandwidth that high bandwidth usage doesn't place any strain on the system, then perhaps that'll be a good argument against charging by the byte. Until then, I want fees unbundled: I want the service providers to charge the lowest possible base price, and then have everyone...