Re:Huge ISPs want per-GB payments from Netflix, YouTube
by VladRussian on Monday January 31, 2011 @05:30PM
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at first thought the fight seems to be about about greedy ISPs wanting to be double-payed.
At the second thought - it is about power and control over Internet. Right now ISPs should accept whatever is dumped into their pipes. They are just common carriers. Given the right to charge content providers for carrying the providers' traffic, they can just pick and choose whose traffic at which price and whether to carry it at all.
At the second thought - it is about power and control over Internet. Right now ISPs should accept whatever is dumped into their pipes. They are just common carriers. Given the right to charge content providers for carrying the providers' traffic, they can just pick and choose whose traffic at which price and whether to carry it at all.