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alasanoyesterday at 2:18 AM1 replyview on HN

If that same internet provider has caps on how much bandwidth I can use every 5 hours and total on a weekly basis, then yes, I pay for capacity.

That argument would have been valid when the 5 hours blocks were unlimited in the beginning.


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danpalmertoday at 2:28 AM

My home ISP, as most are now, have "unlimited downloads". There's no limit on usage by numbers, because consumers don't like that. Instead there's limit on usage by style. I can't run a public server on it, and I don't get a business SLA. For home usage that's ideal, I don't need those things but I don't want to worry about limits.

These plans vs API keys issues are exactly the same concept.