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Re:The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ev... by Hates_ on Saturday January 14, 2012 @02:46PM (#3465096)
Seems the Mercury News piece has now been taken down, although the comments remain.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18730079

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Re:The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ev... by shaggyfrog on Saturday January 14, 2012 @03:52PM (#3465272)
I'm not surprised. They should be embarrassed.

I pay for my Internet bandwidth. Netflix pays for theirs. So the ISPs need a surcharge for what again? What a bunch of parasites.

This shakedown attempt is so transparent it makes SOPA look like the Magna Carta.

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Re:The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ev... by sirclueless on Sunday January 15, 2012 @02:18AM (#3466627)
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Just sounds to me like some incompetent writer tried to wrangle yet another op-ed out of the Comcast vs. Level 3 lawsuit. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-12-01-comcast01_ST_N....

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Re:The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ev... by jbrackett on Saturday January 14, 2012 @04:08PM (#3465321)
It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.
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