Paid peering sounds like an utter shitshow, dreamed up by people whose business models didn't imagine their broadband customers would "use the internet" and therefore "generate traffic". Now they are attempting to describe "traffic" as "abusive" which is fucking bullshit. They sold internet connections. That implied usage. Always. Proper transit and peering (99% of the time( should have been factored in at the outset. It's a cost of doing business, or ought to be.