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Seriously? Comcast et al "allowed" Netflix to pay for peered connections as a courtesy? I suppose the mob allowed businesses to buy protection as a "courtesy" as well.
Netflix isn't slowing anyone down. Both Netflix and Porndig have both bought and paid for the amount of bandwidth they're consuming. Neither of which has anything to do with an ISP's network.
An ISP's network slows down when the people who purchase bandwidth from an ISP exceed that ISPs capacity. What they're using it for doesn't matter.
This would be like your electric company coming to the conclusion that lots of electricity is going towards air conditioners during the summer. Therefore the electric company sets a much higher rate, but only for air conditioners. Of course, air conditioner conditioner manufacturers can make this go away if they pay the electric company a yearly fee... as a courtesy of course. Oh, and the electric company is also now making it's own air conditioner. It barely works, but all of it's electricity is free.
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Edit: as a side note, has anyone else noticed that the anti-Net Neutrality folks have suddenly switched en-masse to calling it NN? As far as I can tell they're the only ones doing it, and it's just weird.
"Netflix has historically routed its streaming content to broadband providers through a number of Internet middlemen. But since mid-2012, the company has been trying to reduce what it pays these middlemen by getting broadband companies to hook up directly to its new video-distribution network without paying them fees for carrying its traffic."
Netflix Agrees to Pay Comcast to End Web Traffic Jam - WSJ