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What I mean is that Netflix pushes the bytes from one side. Bosch doesn't push electricity from one side to make my Bosch washing machine work for example. (Whi
by jatkins 8y ago
What I mean is that Netflix pushes the bytes from one side. Bosch doesn't push electricity from one side to make my Bosch washing machine work for example. (Which highlights another reason this analogy is bad: the electric company gives you power which they have to generate themselves, while an ISP is pipes)
- dunpeal 8y agoNaw, dawg, this is what you replied to me originally: > Bad analogy, since the ISP lays a (figurative and real) pipe between Netflix and the user; this isn't correct for electricity. Most readers can just glance out the window and see various manholes stamped with the name of a power company. These are the very real pipes you claim do not exist. Your argument is blatantly false. Now you came up with a new argument: that Netflix "pushes" bytes. I have news for you: Netflix is already paying for internet connectivity to "push" these bytes. Anyone renting even a single internet server does. Are you just throwing stuff out there, hoping something sticks? Together with the suspicious timing of your account creation, you don't seem very objective or genuine.
- orcs 8y agoNetflix is paying an ISP to be connected to the internet. The Netflix user is paying an ISP to be connected to the internet. Now the ISPs want paid again to provide the service they're already being paid to provide at both ends of the pipe, to make sure the pipe works properly? Extortion plain and simple.
- extrapickles 8y agoA suprising number of power companies have little generation capacity themselves and instead buy it, so they are last mile pipe owners like an ISP.
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