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Why can't ISPs reduce Netflix data?
by new2628 7y ago
Why can't ISPs reduce Netflix data?
- franky47 7y agoSome countries still have "Net Neutrality" laws preventing just that.
- new2628 7y agoI thought it was clear that "laws" are out of the window everywhere now.
- dogma1138 7y agoThe EU for the most part doesn't, traffic shaping is still legal just a practice that died mainly due to the difficulty of implementing it these days than due to net neutrality. https://berec.europa.eu/eng/netneutrality/ https://berec.europa.eu/eng/netneutrality/ >ISPs are prohibited from blocking or slowing down of Internet traffic, except where necessary. The exceptions are limited to: traffic management to comply with a legal order, to ensure network integrity and security, and to manage congestion, provided that equivalent categories of traffic are treated equally.
- ThePowerOfFuet 7y agoBecause it's streamed using HTTPS so they cannot remux or transcode it (not like they have the CPU power to do so anyway).
- antoinealb 7y agoThey could still throttle the TCP stream, and many do. Then the player will likely switch to a lower quality video to adapt to the bandwidth.