On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Adam Compton <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. Arguably, any customer who expects the "big evil megacorp telco" (or frankly -- ANY company with any business sense) to make an infrastructure investment whose main purpose is to directly help their competition from the land-grabbing of their business is either naive or stupid. Nobody's arguing that the buggy whip manufacturers don't have business-model issues, but asking the whip-makers to invest in making cars easier to produce is a bridge too far. D
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