You're looking at a correlation and presuming a cause because it supports your presuppositions. Looking at those graphs, I notice two interesting things. First

You're looking at a correlation and presuming a cause because it supports your presuppositions. Looking at those graphs, I notice two interesting things. First, Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T all experience downward trends starting around Q4 2013...which is right around when Netflix rolled out SuperHD to everyone (which would have increased throughput, and exacerbated saturated links.) Their trends roughly track each other...and the remaining ones tick upward when Netflix started routing directly to Comcast. Now that's curious (anyone care to traceroute Netflix's streaming edges from an ATT uverse connection?) Second, there are two ISPs on that chart which don't have throughput issues. Cox delivers Netflix via XO, I don't know about Cablevision. Did they just miss the Evil Memo or something? Or perhaps there is a fundamentally different issue at play here other than thugs demanding protection money?