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by danielweber 4391 days ago
The reason that asinine JPEG gets shared so much is because it makes people rage because they think they'll have to sign up ahead of time for any website they might want to visit. If it were accurate -- if it said "$2 of your Netflix subscription goes to paying ISP interconnection costs," people would shrug and say "well, of course Netflix has ISP costs."

Hey, Netflix could charge more to customers of certain ISPs, too. What a nightmare! If I make a JPEG showing that will everyone go nuts and share it on the Facebook and demand Netflix stop fucking with net neutrality? I mean, Netflix might do it.
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x0054 4391 days ago
People who are normally getting <500Kbit connection on a Verizon DSL can get the full 3Mbit connection over a VPN during the same time of day. So, is it that Verizon does not have the capacity, or is it that they are specifically throttling your connection to Netflix? These last miles ISPs get all kinds of benefits for their wire, they get tax benefits, and protection. For instance, they have sued in many cities to keep Google Fiber or other municipal fiber networks out.

I have no idea how this isn't an antitrust case yet. Also, considering that most cable packages cost $80+, and Netflix costs $7, what makes you think that the ISPs will stop at charging Netfix just a few dollars extra per customer. Don't you get it, they don't want to get Netflix to pay them more money, they want to drive Netflix out of business.

I think more so than Netflix, Google has a stake in this. Block youtube and gmail for one month on any ISP that does not sign a Net Neutrality pledge, and see what happens. If black mail is good for the goose, it's good for the gander.

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zero_intp 4391 days ago
You make big claims about what other people perceive. This is a straw-man. Clearly it makes /you/ rage, but I suspect it is because it threatens you with cognitive dissidence.

I've experienced this with other MSO engineers. Some MSO engineers even argue that charging a content provider to access their mutual customers is not a rent seeking behavior.

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