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> On the other hand, if your entire business idea revolves around pumping several orders of magnitude more data than anyone else normally does, is it still reas
by wdewind 12y ago
> On the other hand, if your entire business idea revolves around pumping several orders of magnitude more data than anyone else normally does, is it still reasonable to assume others will foot the bill building the infrastructure?
Except Netflix is not pumping data anywhere. This data has already been paid for and is being requested by Comcast's network. They also are not asking anyone to "foot the bill" - they've offered to pay for it entirely.
- 0x0 12y agoIt's a reality that consumer internet is heavily oversubscribed, and sold with the assumption that the average load is much much lower than 100% per costumer. You can claim that the data is already paid for because you are paying for X mbps, but the real price for sustained X mbps 100% is much higher. The alternatives are charging a helluva lot more per customer to actually cover costs (business-level pricing) or a much much lower mbps limit.
- skorgu 12y agoshrug that's business. You pays your money and takes your chances. Comcast (et al) gambled on some level of oversubscription and that's not working for them in reality. It's hard to argue that Netflix is somehow at fault for any of this and it's only the monopoly power of the last-mile ISPs in the US that's making this even a consideration.