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from the play-fair-or-I'll-send-you-all-to-bed dept.
chromas writes:
"Reed Hastings of Netflix writes in his blog:
The essence of net neutrality is that ISPs such as AT&T and Comcast don't restrict, influence or otherwise meddle with the choices consumers make. The traditional form of net neutrality which was recently overturned by a Verizon lawsuit is important, but insufficient.
This weak net neutrality isn't enough to protect an open, competitive Internet; a stronger form of net neutrality is required. Strong net neutrality additionally prevents ISPs from charging a toll for interconnection to services like Netflix, YouTube, or Skype, or intermediaries such as Cogent, Akamai or Level 3, to deliver the services and data requested by ISP residential subscribers. Instead, they must provide sufficient access to their network without charge.
Business Week and Forbes have articles with very slightly contrasted viewpoints."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:22AM
It's still worth mentioning that comcast could've just accepted the use of netflix CDNs https://signup.netflix.com/openconnect/hardware [netflix.com]. It makes them unable to really claim they're not in it precisely for the price gouging. If comcast is threatened by major networks I understand but netflix isn't the one one screwing them. They're really just that bratty ass kid who won't stop bellowing.