On 7/22/14, 1:38 PM, Derek Balling wrote:
On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote:
On 7/22/14, 1:29 PM, Derek Balling wrote:
On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:21 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote:
If this is indeed what Verizon is doing, then there's really no opportunity for
them to complain when Netflix points the finger at Verizon as the reason for
poor streaming performance.
So it's a blame the victim mindset? "We're flooding you, but it's your fault you
can't handle it" ?
Again, assuming your premise, it seems more like "We're flooding you, but since
you're making a business decision to not upgrade your peering capacity, we're going to
try and change your cost/benefit calculations with bad PR".
Certainly. And (as noted earlier) that is easier for Netflix to do because we're
culturally trained to hate the big evil megacorp telco. But it doesn't make Netflix's
position any more "right", or that the government should step in and interfere,
no matter how many people think otherwise.
Arguably, the "big evil megacorp telco" is making a business decision to
provide their customers with worse service than they might otherwise
get, in order to protect their other lines of business, and relying on
their de-facto monopoly in many markets to protect them from market
forces punishing that decision. You have to admit, it's within the realm
of possibility for people to be upset with Verizon here for reasons
unrelated to blind prejudice.
- Adam Compton
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