I'm not sure I understand the argument those ISPs are presenting. They feel that google should pay them for what, exactly? Distribution? That's not quite how the Internet works - you don't push things out to your users like that. Users pay their ISPs to get their packets to their destinations.
Accordingly, there is really nothing wrong with being a dumb pipe as an ISP. That is what you are being paid to do. I'm not really sure what more it is these ISPs want to get into (or why).
There are also implications for network neutrality here. If it suddenly matters what you are doing with the packets (providing a service, for instance, or uploading things generally), and ISPs are allowed to develop a paradigm that differentiates services from each other like they were television channels, network neutrality will be no more.
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I'm not sure I understand the argument those ISPs are presenting. They feel that google should pay them for what, exactly? Distribution? That's not quite how the Internet works - you don't push things out to your users like that. Users pay their ISPs to get their packets to their destinations. Accordingly, there is really nothing wrong with being a dumb pipe as an ISP. That is what you are being paid to do. I'm not really sure what more it is these ISPs want to get into (or why). There are also implications for network neutrality here. If it suddenly matters what you are doing with the packets (providing a service, for instance, or uploading things generally), and ISPs are allowed to develop a paradigm that differentiates services from each other like they were television channels, network neutrality will be no more.