Dude. Netflix doesn't want you to do help its service. Your customers want you to do that. On Jul 13, 2014 4:03 PM, "Brett Glass" <na...@brettglass.com> wrote:
> At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote: > > >ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to > >the Internet. If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you > >look at creative ways to increase revenue from your customers, > > My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract > additional money from them so as to cover expenses that Netflix > should be covering. Nor do they want me to subsidize Netflix > subscribers from the fees from non-Netflix subscribers. They > want to pay a fair price for their Internet that does not include > paying ransom to third parties. > > We currently provide that: we guarantee each subscriber a certain > minimum capacity to the Internet exchange at 1850 Pearl Street > in Denver (to which Netflix does not directly connect) with a certain > maximum duty cycle. But we can't guarantee the performance of a specific > third party service such as Netflix. If Netflix wants us to do that, > it is going to have to pay us, as it pays Comcast. That's only fair, > because we would be doing something special just for it -- something > which costs money. > > If Netflix tries to use its market power to harm ISPs, or to smear > us via nasty on-screen messages as it has been smearing Verizon, ISPs have > no choice but to react. One way we could do this -- and I'm strongly > considering it -- is to start up a competing streaming service that > IS friendly to ISPs. It would use the minimum possible amount of > bandwidth, make proper use of caching, and -- most importantly -- > actually PAY Internet service providers, instead of sapping their > resources, by allowing them to sell it and keep a portion of the fee. > This would provide an automatic, direct, per-customer reimbursement > to the ISP for the cost of bandwidth. ISPs would sign on so fast > that such a service could BURY Netflix in short order. > > --Brett Glass > >