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ISPs Throttling NetFlix Traffic

posted by mattie_p on Thursday February 20 2014, @08:01PM   
from the stop-clogging-the-pipes dept.

dave562 writes: "There was an interesting article posted on Zero Hedge lately on the throttling of Netflix.

'For years, the Netflix streaming business has been growing like a parasite, happy to piggyback on established broadband infrastructures, where the broadband companies themselves have becomes competitors to Netflix for both distribution and content. Until now. Emboldened by the recent Net Neutrality ruling, which has put bandwidth hogs like Netflix which at last check was responsible for over 30% of all downstream US internet traffic, broadband providers are finally making their move, and in a preliminary salvo whose ultimate compromise will be NFLX paying lots of money, have started to throttle Netflix traffic. The WSJ reports (Paywall) that the war between the broadband-ers and the video streaming company has finally emerged from the "cold" phase and is fully hot.'"

• Re:An example of a story which shouldn't make it. Re:An example of a story which shouldn't make it. (Score: 3, Insightful) by joshuajon on Friday February 21 2014, @10:11AM

  by joshuajon (807) on Friday February 21 2014, @10:11AM (#4300)

  You could, y'know, submit [dev.soylentnews.org] one...

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• Re:An example of a story which shouldn't make it. (Score: 2, Funny) by dereismdave on Friday February 21 2014, @11:03AM

  by dereismdave (897) on Friday February 21 2014, @11:03AM (#4344)

  Thank you for your wonderful response. I will submit a story titled "Identifying Sarcasm in a Forum Post" ASAP /sarcasm

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