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Re: Binge On! - And So This is Net Neutrality?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Nov 20 16:23:45 2015

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 16:21:10 -0500
To: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 1:30 PM, Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com> wrote:
> Logic tells me that, if the major incumbents content doesn't count against
> the cap, this leaves more bandwidth for other applications. What am I
> missing?

Cross-subsidy. It's a standard tool of monopoly abuse.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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