But in that scheme, Comcast looses in the long run, when the FCC gets around to them, but Netflix looses customers immediately.
" I pay Netflix 10$ a month and they wont let me use their service cause I am on Comcast? I am taking my money to Hulu!" Sure netflix is "right" but by the time it matters they are out of business. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:50 AM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On Wednesday, December 15, 2010 05:47:09 pm Adam Rothschild wrote: > > What we have here is Comcast holding its users captive, plain and > > simple. They have established an ecosystem where, to reach them, one > > must pay to play, otherwise there's a good chance that packets are > > discarded. > [snip] > > Folk in > > content/hosting should find this all more than a little bit scary. > > I'm surprised no one here has thought of the obvious thing content > providers can do to communicate to the customers of the providers who > artificially throttle traffic from 'freeloading' content providers. > > In the web server configuration, detect what network is accessing the page. > If it's a provider who is trying to coerce content provider payment, tell > the eyeball up front that that's the case, and give a pointer to the place > on the FCC website (or the FCC phone number) where they can lodge a > complaint. If it gets ugly, simply don't serve content to those eyeballs. > > In other words, a content provider boycott of eyeball networks that want to > try to play hardball. If you get enough content providers to band together > to do this, the customers of those eyeball networks will make a difference. > Hrmph, all you really have to do is get google or facebook to boycott an > eyeball network. > > IOW, if there's no content to see, there's no need for an 'Internet' > connection. > >