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if they sell a fast lane to netflix, any savings you might get, you then pay for because netflix costs more. nobody wins here except the people with the more c

• dragonwriter 10y ago
  > if they sell a fast lane to netflix, any savings you might get, you then pay for because netflix costs more. Well, some would argue that those who don't use Netflix pay less subsidized by Netflix. But that's only true if they are selling to Netflix as a monopoly with pricing power (otherwise, competition would drive this down to leave no excess to subsidize anything but the cost of providing the fast lane), which is unlikely unless they are also selling to consumer as such a monopoly, in which case whole they could use the surplus Netflix payment to subsidize lower prices for non-Netflix users, their ore likely to just use the monopoly rents on both sides to increase corporate profits.