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Then YouTube, Pandora, and any little startup video or music streaming service is at a crippling disadvantage when Comcast decides to zero-rate stuff from Comca
by cestith 9y ago
Then YouTube, Pandora, and any little startup video or music streaming service is at a crippling disadvantage when Comcast decides to zero-rate stuff from Comcast, Netflix, and Spotify free.
Which, by the way, won't happen. Comcast owns NBC, Universal Pictures, and a whole lot more. They own part of Hulu along with Disney, Fox, and Time Warner. They'll be zero-rating Xfinity On Demand and Hulu. Netflix, YouTube, and anything else they don't own will suffer from unequal market conditions in the large areas where Comcast has government-mandated monopolies. It's essentially government granting unfair competition to monopolies they already granted.
Imagine if Ford or GM built toll roads, but customers who bought Ford or GM cars could pay nothing or some small percentage of full price to drive on those roads.