On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:49 PM, David Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > But you have no problem talking about the Evil Nasty megacorp Netflix and how > they are bombarding the poor Verizon network with their unwanted traffic.
I don't claim Netflix is a megacorp. Nobody could. They're not. They're a scrappy upstart who is trying to take advantage of the way traffic has traditionally been routed, but a "victim" of that advantage-taking has said "enough is enough". > nobody else here is saying that companies are evil, but some of us are saying > that the actions of many of the monopolist last-mile ISPs is evil. please > note the difference. So end the monopoly. THAT's the root-cause of the issue, and is where attention should be focused. You'll get no argument from me there. > The idea that a website should have to pay every ISP in the world to carry > their content is not the Internet, it's some other structure, and I don't > believe that it's manageable. The sheer logistics of trying to bill every > website and pay every ISP in the world is not managable. If you're generating enough traffic that other sites notice and care about you, it's not the worst thing in the world to be prepared to revenue-share with the other people making your business-model possible. >> gain, you paint this as if this Netflix traffic is unwanted by Verizon. If >> that's the case, they shouldn't care that Netflix performance is poor on >> their network, because they are deliberately making it so, and should tell >> the customers to get a different ISP if they want good Netflix performance. > > I'll bet that if they made that statement, they would loose a lot of > customers pretty quickly. Well, that's the reason for the argument for focusing on competition. Let net-neutral companies compete against net-non-neutral and see who is more profitable, who has more customers, who has better performance, cheaper prices, etc., etc., and let consumers decide for themselves? Because there are reasoned arguments for all of the various models, but only in an actual competitive market-place can people decide for themselves which model works best for THEM. D
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