Your response is orthogonal to my main point—which is that services will be the new channels, and they will have much more power than they did under the cable r

Your response is orthogonal to my main point—which is that services will be the new channels, and they will have much more power than they did under the cable regime. The mega-services at Netflix/Hulu scale will definitely by CDN capacity direct from ISPs, but that in no way means that these ISPs are gatekeepers with anything near the power that is crumbling from the grasp of the cable companies today. That would only be the case if the ISPs defeat net neutrality and become as evil as possible about restricting outside content to reach their users, and frankly if they twirl their mustache that hard consumers will revolt and regulation will come down on them like a ton of bricks.