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This is exactly why I dropped Netflix. I want a high-def movie, not their whining about someone else's network. I have no problems streaming from Amazon. I ha

This is exactly why I dropped Netflix. I want a high-def movie, not their whining about someone else's network. I have no problems streaming from Amazon. I have a choice of streamers. Other streamers work better. I have less choice of wired ISPs and they're harder to switch. Netflix would rather whine and preserve its profit margins than pay up. OK, fine, but since their whining does not get me the movie I want, I cut it off. Netflix will find that most other people also do not care to hear their whining. I can understand why Netflix does it though...it's $8 a month. Between production costs, licensing costs, marketing, and profits, all $8 a month leaves room for is crappy movies, poor investment, and a continuous drive to shift costs to ISPs and whine about it.

mwfunk 12y ago
You are paying your ISP to move bytes to and from your home. It doesn't matter where those bytes come from or go to; you are paying for that bandwidth. It's already paid for. You either get that bandwidth per your agreement with them or you don't. It's not like Netflix is causing you to magically download more bytes. You chose to do this, and that's fine, because that's what you're paying your ISP for. Comcast, et al want to double-dip on this transaction and you should be extremely not OK with that. Why wouldn't the ISPs do the exact same thing to Amazon that they did to Netflix as soon as they become a big enough target and the legal precedent has been established? This is something that needs to be nipped in the bud, like NOW, before this becomes an established way for ISPs to do business. Also, it's not like all of your favorite services that will someday be paying Comcast protection money not to throttle them are just going to swallow those costs. Those costs will get passed on to you one way or another. No good can possibly come out of any of this.

mwfunk 12y ago

You are paying your ISP to move bytes to and from your home. It doesn't matter where those bytes come from or go to; you are paying for that bandwidth. It's already paid for. You either get that bandwidth per your agreement with them or you don't. It's not like Netflix is causing you to magically download more bytes. You chose to do this, and that's fine, because that's what you're paying your ISP for. Comcast, et al want to double-dip on this transaction and you should be extremely not OK with that. Why wouldn't the ISPs do the exact same thing to Amazon that they did to Netflix as soon as they become a big enough target and the legal precedent has been established? This is something that needs to be nipped in the bud, like NOW, before this becomes an established way for ISPs to do business. Also, it's not like all of your favorite services that will someday be paying Comcast protection money not to throttle them are just going to swallow those costs. Those costs will get passed on to you one way or another. No good can possibly come out of any of this.