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Netflix fights attempt to make streaming firms pay for ISP network upgrades
- 8note 4y agoIt kinda seems like Netflix is missing a negotiating opportunity. If they're the only ones paying this tax for infrastructure, they should have exclusive rights to stream content over that new infrastructure
- johnklos 4y agoRarely do I feel sympathy for large companies, but Netflix is right here. Let's see... we pay our ISPs for access to the Internet. Netflix pays network providers for bandwidth for their servers all over the planet. Everyone is getting paid. Why should our ISPs get paid from the other end for something we're already paying for? I get it - it's a "strain", because Netflix and other streaming constitute a majority of the bulk of the traffic on the Internet - but we already get capped on our home ISP plans if we use too much even when it's supposed to be unlimited, so allowing ISPs to bill upstream is only going to embolden them to want more. If they can set a precedent with Netflix, they're not going to stop there - then it'll be Hulu, AppleTV+, Paramount, Amazon Prime, YouTube, and so on. Next, all streaming services will be treated differently than other Internet traffic, and net neutrality will become a thing of the past. No, thank you.
- phillipseamore 4y agoNF already offers just about any ISP one or more OpenConnect cache appliances to move 99.9% of the traffic to be internal to the ISP. So I don't really see why NF should be funding basically last-mile infrastructure.