Sure, current impact may be limited or non-existent as you point out... but times and technologies change. Remember the old BBS's and how difficult downloading a pic was? Downloading something the size of a music file seemed a daydreamer's fantasy and to suggest downloading a full length, good quality feature film would have been simply crazy. That was less than 20 years ago. Tomorrow when the Father and Holy Ghost phones are out who knows?
It will be impossible to get back neutrality once it is gone. Whether you would be streaming Sunday's Sermon or Friday Night's Fraternity Favorites, ideally (IMHO) your network provider should not be deciding (which it would be doing if selectively blocking is allowed). And if the issue is piracy, than the piracy needs to be addressed, not the technology... why prevent legitimate uses of torrent technologies from evolving? (again, IMHO ... and a bit of a stray for the wireless issue... so in conclusion.
The FCC should be consistent, and not caring today likely leads to not having tomorrow.
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