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I can't tell if this is defeatist or just insane. Who cares if he envisioned Netflix in the past, his comments are in the light of the present. So yeah, I'm sur
by themartorana 12y ago
I can't tell if this is defeatist or just insane. Who cares if he envisioned Netflix in the past, his comments are in the light of the present. So yeah, I'm sure bandwidth needs of today - and he's pretty smart, so I'm gonna go with tomorrow - are probably considered in his statement.
But we're not talking about consumption, we're talking about the speed at which I can consume. If you pay for 1G/m and I pay for 1TB/m at 100mbps, I expect all content, no matter it's nature, be delivered at the same maximum capacity reaching 100mbps to you and me equally, no matter the content. I already pay more to be able to stream a mass of content but we still should enjoy equality of delivery of the content we choose to engage in, without a middle party deciding which of that is more important for us.
- zwieback 12y agoExactly, thanks for making my argument more convincingly. I would love to have the people who are willing to pay for 1TB/m subsidize my slower tier. Forcing everyone to have a transport layer that's independent of the content is not a great idea. If you were going to design a new network today you would never go down that path.
- nitrogen 12y agoForcing everyone to have a transport layer that's independent of the content is not a great idea. If you were going to design a new network today you would never go down that path. Actually, yes I would (not the OP). Packets go in, packets come out.