If you read the article, his data usage wasn't the reason he was cut off. He was caught because of it, but the reason he's being forced to business class is that he's running a server (multiple actually.) Residential has it in their TOS, no hosting servers on that connection. If anything Verizon should be applauded compared to companies like Comcast... they didn't even throttle him before they called to find out what was going on. He willingly gave himself away.