US indie label's organisation A2IM described the new internet regulation voted on February 26 by the five-member Federal Communications Commission as "historic".

By reclassifying high-speed internet service as a telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act, the FCC imposed on ISPs the same rules as telecoms companies and confronted the concept of net neutrality.

The new regulation, proposed by FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, means that ISPs and wireless operators will not be able to offer so-called "fast lanes" ...