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> How can you create a startup competing with YouTube, if most people have a package that gives YouTube faster internet speeds? In this scenario, is it only co
by aliakhtar 9y ago
> How can you create a startup competing with YouTube, if most people have a package that gives YouTube faster internet speeds?
In this scenario, is it only competitors of Facebook/Youtube/Netflix that would be slowed down, or would all websites / blogs / other startup sites also slow down?
- PaulRobinson 9y agoThe proposed systems are pay to play. Everybody slows down until they give the ISP money.
- michaelbrave 9y agoISP's would first gouge companies for money, only larger competitors that are already established like Youtube or Netflix would be able to pay it. Also, companies owned by the ISP like Hulu would probably be exempt from the gouging.
- pmontra 9y agoIf they go after Facebook/Youtube/Netflix (Google, etc) and ask them to pay money, they have to slow down everybody else or what are they asking those money for? They'll also ask money from retail customers. You want Google fast? Buy the Search monthly package on top of the standard internet subscription. Etc.
- rahimnathwani 9y ago"they have to slow down everybody else" No they don't. They could achieve much the same impact by slowing down only traffic that appears to be video or audio, e.g. by allowing everything through at full speed, until a customer has transferred more than, say 10MB, from a particular IP address over a one hour period. This wouldn't impact blogs or most corporate brochure sites, but would still have negative effects for many startups.