All people disagreeing, consider this: high-speed Internet is getting more common everyday, and where there's no ADSL, no cable, there's still 3G cellular data access. So coverage isn't the issue.
However, as the world is heading forward upping or removing transfer limits altogether while lowering prices, North America (especially Canada) goes backwards by freezing or raising rates, placing ever lower caps with shylock-y penalties on over-usage. A gig of data costs carriers around $0.10 to transfer, yet most of them charge between $0.25 an almost $8. We're talking about 250 and 8000% benefit here. An Internet service, specifically tailored for students with an 8 month contract, has advertisements rolled out in all student and paid newspapers alike, advertising it as "The roommate everyone wants", "The perfect roomate", with four or five young people sitting on a couch, surfing the net and enjoying it: in fine print, it's written that this 15MBit/s service is capped... at 60GB a month. I'm sorry, but if I'm in the move of having a roommate, I would basically need ten times this amount, period.
This is especially ridiculous with 3G data plans. They start at a miserable 500MB, and except for grandfathered plans, don't go over a mere 6GB. That's even less than a full DVD ! Caps on all high speed accesses are THE issue.
Plus, Treeman574, you should already know that companies don't want you to avoid wasting time, have a safeguard should your children or dog trash a precious original media. The term says it all, it's precious, irreplaceable. Literally.
