It seems to me that Netflix management is a little more forward-thinking than that. Hastings, et al. know that streaming is going to be their primary market an

It seems to me that Netflix management is a little more forward-thinking than that. Hastings, et al. know that streaming is going to be their primary market and if they're having to pay off every possible intermediary in the future, their margins are going to disappear completely. While certainly not an ideal situation, I could easily see Netflix going after Comcast with highly-visible notices to their Comcast customers rather than pay them off and set a very, very bad precedent.