THis sounds awesome.

sign me up, id love to dump comcast and their data caps for this.

Sign me up too so's I can dump stuff.

Bookmark.  Thx, Doc.

Sounds interesting, but I will probably never see it in my area, too small a town. Going to take him years to get this done too, if ever. I hope he gets the funds to continue.

Wonderful!

The site doesn't say where they're based, but this sounds like the sort of people I might want to get a job with once high school is done.

We could use this kind of ISP service over here in Blighty, too.

If he can make his ISP promise no caps ever, he'll have something.

Bah. Most of those folks are DSL. The reason we have cable internet is that we couldn't afford to replace the phone line if we wanted to.

Well, if nothing else, it will result in some interesting legal battles over willful blindness.

What? {willful deafness}

Actually, in light of Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB (SCOTUS) that is a real dander, and not one to be taken lightly as potential customers might be very undesirable ones.

"... the high court held that the “willful blindness” doctrine, which relieves a plaintiff of proving that the defendant actually knew that its actions were infringing, applies to certain patent infringement claims. The Court also implied that the doctrine properly applies in federal criminal cases, which would undermine traditional criminal-intent, or mens rea, protections against unjust criminal punishment. The result may be that more innocent Americans will face criminal conviction.

...The Court’s rationale suggests that the impact of its decision will be felt most strongly not in patent suits but in criminal prosecutions—a result fraught with troubling consequences. In a patent suit, the plaintiff is seeking monetary damages and an injunction curtailing the infringing party’s conduct. A criminal prosecution, by contrast, is a far more serious legal contest. The dangers to criminal defendants of not requiring proof of actual knowledge include a felony conviction, loss of personal liberty (i.e., prison), and the great moral and societal stigma that goes with being labeled a criminal.

While everyone knows that murder, battery, theft, and embezzlement are crimes, the same cannot be said of most of the thousands of criminal offenses now on the books. Thus, as Georgetown University law professor Julie O’Sullivan has noted, what a person accused of a crime did and did not know “is often both central to the case and hotly contested.

Justice Kennedy wrote the dissenting opinion. The willful blindness doctrine invites a jury to infer, after the fact, that an accused “should have known” and to conclude that the government has carried its burden even though the statute requires “knowledge.”  The willful blindness doctrine invites a jury to infer, after the fact, that an accused “should have known” and to conclude that the government has carried its burden even though the statute requires “knowledge.”- Brian Walsh, Amer. Heritage Foundation

Yeah, unfortunately while a good idea, is not going to work, ISP's and hosting providers in the U.S are required to provide logs of user activity, I can't see how this service would survive a legal battle.  It is really no different than the myriad of VPN services you can subscribe to today, pretty much all of which (at least the U.S ones) actually do log and turn over logs on demand to the authorities.