Some companies fear “throttling”—a deliberate slowing—which may become more frequently used by the ISPs. Just look at the recent battle between Netflix and telecommunications giant Comcast. Netflix speeds were crawling along making it miserable for customers to stream content. But once negotiations with Comcast ended and Netflix paid up, streaming conditions went back to “normal.” Lest they be seen as the bad guys here, Comcast published the following statement on their corporate blog: “It was not Comcast that was creating viewability issues for Netflix customers, it was Netflix’s commercial transit decisions that created these issues.”
Netflix cleared the air on their own official blog, in case consumers were confused. “In sum, Comcast is not charging Netflix for transit service. It is charging Netflix for access to its subscribers. Comcast also charges its subscribers for access to Internet content providers like Netflix. In this way, Comcast is double dipping by getting both its subscribers and Internet content providers to pay for access to each other.”
Whether or not staged Internet slowdowns will be enough to make a difference in the end, no one can say. The battle between David and Goliath is bound to wage on, only Goliath in this story is Comcast, and David is your friendly neighborhood porn streaming site.
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