On 9/17/2010 11:43 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:
How would you feel if you paid for priority access to hulu.com via this means,
only to see>your carrier de-prioritize that traffic because they're getting a
check from Netflix?
Isn't this where "competition/may the best provider win" comes into play?
That argument may not work, as there are many non-competitive
jurisdictions.
Of course, the non-compete areas aren't necessarily where a content
provider would pay for such a service. Content provider must see value
in the higher class service, which generally means they send a lot of
traffic to where they are paying, which implies a lot of customers on
the ISP side, which implies a high probability that we are talking
metropolitan areas where there is more competition (or a massive NSP
which will have a mix of rural and metro).
Jack
