[173126] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Wed Jul 16 19:22:47 2014
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:22:34 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <97179ED1-F137-4E75-935C-06A0C9D83391@delong.com>
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On 7/16/14, 3:57 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2014, at 09:09 , nanog@brettglass.com wrote:
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>> If Netflix continues on its current course, ALL ISPs -- not just rural ones,
>> will eventually be forced to rebel. And it will not be pretty.
> I don't think so. I think the reality is that access providers have been trying to find ways
> to force content providers to subsidize their business and avoid charging their customers
> accurately for a long time and that continuing to do so is damaging to everyone involved.
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Indeed. We've heard this at each turn of the bandwidth crank from OMG
JPG's! to OMG VoIP!
to OMG HD! to OMG Quantum Teleportation! (ok, maybe not the last. yet.)
Nobody's owed a business model, and we all know it's messy around the
edges. Suck it up,
and maybe your customers will too.
Mike
