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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by tonyarkles on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @02:52PM (#7774436)
I'm not sure of a more eloquent way to say this. Comcast's customers are the CDN's customer's customers.
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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by apetresc on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @03:07PM (#7774530)
To play devil's advocate, those CDN customers would also be unable to access content if their power went out. But nobody would think to say the CDN isn't doing their job if Texas had a blackout, because "I'm paying you to deliver my content to Texas, dammit!"

It's a bit of a stretch, but I think that's the analogy they're going for.

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Re:Level3 is without peer, now what to do? by rhizome on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @03:33PM (#7774683)
Right, but that relationship, especially as applies to support and subscription, is not transitive.
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