Basically the ISPs held one service for ransom by slowing down the traffic enough to make it run poorly until the service paid the demands.
We can probably expect to see more of this in the future. Amazon and Google should probably start setting aside a warchest for the inevitable shakedowns.
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/186576-verizon-caught-...
Basically the ISPs held one service for ransom by slowing down the traffic enough to make it run poorly until the service paid the demands.
We can probably expect to see more of this in the future. Amazon and Google should probably start setting aside a warchest for the inevitable shakedowns.