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Re:YouTube's Fine - Analysts Don't Understand Internet Peering by bilbo0s on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:31PM (#573461)
Until, of course, peering agreements are renegotiated. I think this is where other bandwidth providers will stick it to Google.

They only have leverage for the moment. It's like falling off a cliff. Everyone thinks . . . "so far . . . so good" on the way down. But it's not the period that you are falling that is important, it's how you stop when you reach the bottom.

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Re:YouTube's Fine - Analysts Don't Understand Internet Peering by donaldc on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @11:44PM (#573475)
Doubtful. Google's been around for years now. If the bandwidth providers were going to stick it to Google, they already would have.

Furthermore, Google and the bandwidth provider both stand to gain by cutting out any middlemen (i.e. tier 1 providers), so they both have an incentive to be reasonable.

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