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Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, et
by specialist 6y ago
Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, etc. He thinks the sources should pay their fare share.
I'd like to learn what fare means, how to curtail consumer throttling, how yo curtail free loaders (bypassing transit fees), what system would be more fair.
Surely we can design market mechanisms to balance these concerns.
- nickelcitymario 6y agoI don't get it. How do the sources not pay? Don't they pay for hosting and bandwidth? Aren't edge servers an implementation detail that's inherent in providing bandwidth?
- specialist 6y agoMe neither. I don't consider my bro a reliable narrator. What I've gleaned is the transit fees were regulated for a while. It seems to me that Generic ISP Inc would meter all the Netflix traffic and then send them a bill. And if Netflix wants to ensure their end users are getting whatever quantity and quality of bandwidth, the two parties will negotiate.
- majormajor 6y ago> Consumers are not the free riders my bro cares about. It's other companies. Like when he builds out new edge servers which get filled up by YouTube, TikTok, etc. He thinks the sources should pay their fare share. Is he letting those sources push content to him for free? Or are his customers determining what's going through his network?