Owen DeLong wrote:
On Jul 13, 2014, at 16:00 , Brett Glass <nanog@brettglass.com> wrote:
At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote:
ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to the Internet. If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you look at creative ways to increase revenue from your customers, My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract additional money from them so as to cover expenses that Netflix should be covering. Nor do they want me to subsidize Netflix subscribers from the fees from non-Netflix subscribers. They want to pay a fair price for their Internet that does not include paying ransom to third parties. Why should Netflix be covering those expenses? Your customers asked for the content from Netflix. They paid you to deliver it and they paid Netflix for the content.
Not for nothing, but in the old days, if I asked Netflix to send me a CD in the mail, they paid the postage - out of the fee I paid them. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra