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Recent Netflix problems were caused by ISPs behaviour that otherwise could be prohibited. Howso? It's a pretty broad reading of NN that would force Comcast to
by twoodfin 12y ago
Recent Netflix problems were caused by ISPs behaviour that otherwise could be prohibited.
Howso? It's a pretty broad reading of NN that would force Comcast to build beefier connections to Level 3 and Cogent in common data centers. I'd be very interested to hear the interpretation of any currently proposed NN policy that would have resolved that dispute in a positive way for Netflix.
- shmerl 12y ago> Howso? Because they did it for non technical reasons, i.e. just because they could. They abused their monopolistic control in order to extort money from Netflix. Net neutrality should address such abuse, but the problem here is not so much in definition of such behavior as in its detection, since there is hardly any transparency in what is going on.