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Re:The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net... by lucianof on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @12:06PM (#3766901)
I agree. The article lost me at this bit: 'The company claims that “content is being delivered over our private IP network and not the public Internet,” but that’s a meaningless distinction given that Comcast owns the entire pipe and can arbitrarily create private networks any time it’s convenient to do so.'

What does the author mean? Comcast certainly doesn't own the entire Internet, so why is it a meaningless distinction?

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Re:The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net... by Drbble on Thursday March 29, 2012 @02:10AM (#3769884)
The public Internet is a bunch of connected private networks with peering agreements. So comcast can flip the public bit by turning off peering whenever they want.
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Re:The new Comcast Xbox Xfinity app is the first nail in net... by tedunangst on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @01:10PM (#3767250)
Making that distinction would mean Comcast is justified in pricing it differently, but since we already know Comcast is not justified, the distinction must be meaningless.
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