On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:46:32PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Will Dennis wrote: > > >I think all of this PR battle (which now parts of the LOPSA > >membership is getting sucked into ;) is over Netflix trying not to > >have to pay VZ to reach their customers like they did Comcast -- > >http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/24/business/media/comcast-and-netflix-reach-a-streaming-agreement.html > > I agree that this is what Verizon is trying to do. I think the > comcast agreement was a bad thing for the Internet (for all the > reasons mentioned here)
You have to understand, this is common practice. Almost all of the major internet companies pay various ISPs to compensate them for the amount of traffic. Netflix is one of the very few that hasn't been. You can argue about whether it's a good idea or not, but the precedent is long established. Paul _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
