[133716] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Thu Dec 16 11:05:05 2010
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:05:02 -0500
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikitqOHVPC+Jyh=dKbi_OuKfYJrFVxrCNpWVQ88@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 12/16/2010 10:54 AM, Mikel Waxler wrote:
> 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.
>
Surely serving a "bumper" video at the beginning - "Comcast is trying to
charge you more for Netflix - see http://www.netflix.com/comcastripoff/"
- would be enough?
--Patrick
