Essential stock market data costs to soar

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Hi, 

I came across this article: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-exchange-data-idUSKBN17L2PU

My understanding is that the exchanges want to make more money; and want to distinguish the folks who use quotes on a display-screen (e.g., ToS or TWS) versus polling or streaming via an API; and suspect the recent change in the IB quotes subscription is due to this, 

I know that people here have sourced their data from historicaloptionsdata.com or IB API; this rule will most likely affect professionals who get their quotes from Bloomberg, RealTick or some other kind of professional OMS/EMS and data vendors, but am curious for retail who collect data, if you guys know if this is going to be a big deal too? 

Best,
PC