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Originally Posted by cstreit
I haven't read the current law, but I didn't like receiving crappy Netflix streaming until Netflix paid Comcast it's extortion fee. The very DAY that Netflix paid Comcast we went from SD to HD streaming.
What if an anti-Comcast website suddently got 1200BPS bandwidth... while their pro-Comcast websites got 1GBPS? Would that convince you we need net neutrality?
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As much as I hate to defend Comcast that's not really what happened.
Imagine if you own a company.
Company A (Netflix) pays company B to deliver 30 packages to your area. Company B can only deliver so far so they contract with you (Comcast) and pay you to deliver the 30 packages on the final leg.
Another company, company C asks you to deliver 70 packages a day. You don't charge company C because you have 70 packages that you need C to deliver for you.
You and company C figure since you are asking the same of each other why bother charging each other because it's a wash.
So you are delivering 100 packages a day and getting paid for 30 of them.
Company C goes to company A and says "I can deliver your 30 packages cheaper than company B" so company A says "Deal".
Company C tells you, "hey, you know that 70 packages you deliver for me for free, starting tomorrow it's going to be 100 and I want you to deliver them for free as well."
What are you going to say?