On Thursday, July 31, 2014 07:10:49 PM Owen DeLong wrote:
You are still misinterpreting my statement, or at least it appears that you are.
The pleasures of e-mail, and tones they do not convey :-)...
I am not saying that Netflix is attempting to “grab”.
Yes, that's what I meant - by "grab them" I meant the traditional ISP's who are also in the content game (U-Verse, Xfinity, FiOS, e.t.c.) are making a deliberate or unconscious play to "grab" Netflix (where grab means either frustrate them or take them out of the equation). So yes, we are on the same page, Owen; the lack of body in e-mail is not either of us justice :-). But, like I said, all this is conjecture on my part. Netflix may not have the might or time to become an ISP, but other networks that play in content (and are currently not known for being ISP's, even though they may run very large global IP networks) might.
(Netflix is also a distributor, not owner).
I'm aware - it's easier for me to say "content owner" to encompass that industry (given some content players own and distribute content, while others simply distribute it), but I know this list is well clued in on the nuances of the terminology. Mark.