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re: Is Net Nutrality about to be gone?
Posted on 11/21/17 at 7:50 pm to Drewbie
Posted on 11/21/17 at 7:50 pm to Drewbie
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There wasn't a word out of any ISP about having to open extra ports for Netflix at any point until the contract was expired.
Do you understand how a contract works?
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It was just the massive ISP making a power move on Netflix, throttling customers in the process. There's your free market.
It was the massive ISP wanting compensation for doing something that before they did as a courtesy and received a courtesy in kind.
Netflix couldn't return this courtesy and increasingly kept needing this courtesy provided as they ramped up their streaming content. Therefore compensation was requested for the next contract.
That is 100% free market.
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Posted on 11/21/17 at 7:54 pm to Centinel
quote:If you're claiming it was done "as a courtesy" then obviously it wasn't stipulated in the original contract so they could have just let the connections bottleneck and still be perfectly within their terms. They didn't do it because there was no money to be made at the time. As soon as the contract was up they saw $$$$$. Throttled the frick out of Netflix at the expense of hundreds of thousands of people's experiences and forced more compensation for themselves. This is a picture perfect example of the experience we as customers are going to have under this structure.
Do you understand how a contract works?
This post was edited on 11/21/17 at 7:56 pm
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