[couchdive]

or.......it could be they saw the writing on the wall and have already been paying for better bandwidth since 2014....

https://news.avclub.com/netflix-to-pay-comcast-for-bandwidth...

[bshacklett]

Agreed. This is potentially beneficial to Netflix, et. al. at this point. It just makes it harder for startups to compete with them.

[dv_dt]

Who knows how much of the recent price hikes relate to it too...

[katastic]

I would imagine the majority is Hollywood demanding more and more money to have access to their content.