BitTorrent, Inc. CEO Eric Klinker doesn't want Internet service providers to charge Web services for prioritized access to consumers—"fast lanes" as described in the debate over proposed network neutrality regulations.

Instead, Klinker is (satirically) suggesting the opposite: that ISPs should pay companies and users to remain in a "slow lane."

With fast lanes, money would flow "from your favorite websites to the ISPs, the very same companies you already pay to deliver Internet service to your home," he wrote in a blog post scheduled to go live at this link at 1:30pm ET. "In this model, the ISPs get paid twice, both to provide their service and regulate heavy-use companies, like Netflix."

Klinker criticized arguments that ISPs are entitled to collect premiums to make sure that heavy network users "pay their fair share" and don't cause congestion for others.

"These are very familiar arguments, as they were used to justify the most notable violation of Network Neutrality in recent memory: the blocking of BitTorrent traffic by Comcast in 2007 and 2008," he wrote.

BitTorrent, developer of the peer-to-peer file sharing protocol of the same name, has voluntarily remained in a "slow lane" of sorts for several years because of the uTorrent Transport Protocol (uTP), which reduces the speed of data transmissions when they might harm other applications. BitTorrent and its users don't get paid for relying on this protocol, of course, but Klinker suggested they should.

"What if ISPs pay users or websites to use the network less during peak times? This would relieve pressure on the network, yield a better experience for users, and would be worth real money to the ISPs," he wrote. "Of course, the big difference between this idea and that of [FCC] Chairman [Tom] Wheeler is that the money (or value) flows the other way—from the utility (in this case the ISP) to their customers or other websites."

Klinker doesn't buy the argument that "broadband is a scarce resource."

"It’s time to stop engaging in this kind of zero-sum thinking, pitting one user of the network against another. There is no scarcity," he wrote.

In fact, ISPs have already admitted as much. Government Accountability Office researchers who studied data caps say that wireline ISPs told them "that congestion is not currently a problem." In other words, data caps on home Internet service are for making money rather than managing congestion—and paid fast lanes would be too.