That's not what happened. Netflix pays their bandwidth middleman, and their bandwidth middleman subsequently refused to pay for upgrades for the massive usage o

That's not what happened. Netflix pays their bandwidth middleman, and their bandwidth middleman subsequently refused to pay for upgrades for the massive usage of their customer. Netflix should have either demanded their middleman pay, moved to a different middleman, or offered to sign an agreement with the companies directly. Let's put it another way. Let's say Netflix's bandwidth middleman hosts both Netflix and a critical telehealth operator. Should Verizon shake down or throttle the telehealth service, potentially putting health at risk, in order to prop up entertainment content streams for a deadbeat company? Of course only Netflix gets throttled, they're degrading the rest of the internet and not paying for upgrades. Netflix being able to degrade the internet for other services traversing the same lines while refusing to pay (again, industry standard) is greed. >Netflix even offers to put caches on the ISPs network We don't want to pay, but give us free rack space to solve this problem?