On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:50:33 -0400, Derek Balling wrote:
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.
And here we see the problem
The Internet is not "the competition" for the ISP division, it's the
service they are selling to their users.
It's only when you start looking at other businesses that the
$bigmedia-corp is in that there is any competition.
Abusing a monopoly position in one area to affect your offerings in
another area is exactly what is supposed to trigger anti-trust actions.
David Lang
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