"Netflix sends out an unprecedented amount of traffic" is one of several misleading locutions in this piece. Verizon customers request these packets. The ISPs'

"Netflix sends out an unprecedented amount of traffic" is one of several misleading locutions in this piece. Verizon customers request these packets. The ISPs' problem is that they aren't willing to change their pitch to customers. As long as their product is "internet service at ~x gbps," they are on the wrong side of this issue. So they go ransoming the content folks. The funny thing is that the dream world of the big modern ISPs would appear to be something like AOL circa 1994, where you can have "the internet," but it's a cheap lo-fi interconnect [1], and what they mainly want you to consume is a bunch of low-quality in-house content channels. [2] [1] http://images.appleinsider.com/leopard-preview-ichat-3.jpg http://images.appleinsider.com/leopard-preview-ichat-3.jpg [2] http://www.jeffwright.com/portfolio/portfolio_aol_main.jpg http://www.jeffwright.com/portfolio/portfolio_aol_main.jpg