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Re:Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future... by zdragnar on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @01:35PM (#15908145)
I've always been under the impression that smaller brewers are harder hit by this than larger brewers, as they have to convince distributors to carry their product, which was really difficult prior to the craft brew craze.
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Re:Net Neutrality’s Holes in Europe May Offer Peek at Future... by smichel17 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @02:43PM (#15908791)
That's where net neutrality comes in, so you don't have to convince ISPs not to throttle your streaming service.

Also, I'm having trouble imagining a small streaming service getting into the ISP business in order to reach a couple thousand people when they can reach hundreds of millions through the internet.

A small ISP getting into the streaming business to provide local content is less outlandish, but still seems rare; I think that's a reasonable price to pay, particularly given that the status quo makes it prohibitively difficult for small ISPs to exist at all, in many places.

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