Could the Internet crash? Media rich content like videos, music, online games increase demand of higher bandwidth. According to recent measurements, YouTube is consuming up to 20 percent of HTTP traffic, that is some 10 percent of the overall Internet traffic. In November 2007, Nemertes Research gained attentiveness by its prediction of a bandwidth collapse in 2010, when Internet demand could outpace the overall network capacity. Whether advances in Internet technologies and better hardware will overcome this cloudy prognosis is yet unclear. (Source (Login req'd)).

I wonder if network neutrality opponents will take this opportunity to purport to be saviours of the Internet by narrowing bandwidth capacity for video and BitTorrent hogs. We'll see by no later than in 2011, when TV at the computer screen will be an everyday task and the ever increasing need for speed will outpace the underlying network. In former years, Pop ate itself and video killed the radio star. Will the Internet also kill itself? Or is this just a 'normal' development?