Excess Bandwidth Charges

Excess bandwidth charges. Don't you just hate it when your ISP does that? It charges what appears a reasonable fee for hosting your website but then suddenly it slams you with a bill you didn't expect because the bandwidth usage has exceeded the agreed amount. Worse still, it turns out that a lot of rogue bandwidth is caused by bots or search engine spiders, or "scraper software" that steals your website content, while leaving you to foot the bill.

The worst case of bandwidth bandity I've seen is at http://www.keytlaw.com/FTC/Actions/ftc010403.htm and that's an extreme case. But there are other examples closer to home.