From CNET:
Angry Netflix customers are a force to be reckoned with, and they're the ones owed an explanation about why the company would slow the transmission of video streams to some wireless customers without informing them.
Netflix found itself in the hot seat after admitting, in a Wall Street Journal story Thursday, that for five years it had been tamping down service to Verizon and AT&T customers. What's more, the Los Gatos, California, company said the policy excluded customers of T-Mobile and Sprint.
Critics immediately cried foul on Netflix, seeing hypocrisy on the part of a company that two years ago led a fight to require the Federal Communications Commission to adopt "strong" Net neutrality rules that would ban Internet service providers from slowing traffic under almost any circumstances. Netflix also wanted the FCC to require operators to be more transparent in how they manage their networks.
But the most galling aspect may be that Netflix never notified its customers that it was imposing a slowdown.
"There is nothing wrong with what Netflix is doing," said Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a group that has opposed the FCC's Net neutrality regulations. "Except for not making it public."
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Tuesday March 29 2016, @07:09PM
Does it really matter if I'm watching on a handheld device? Artifacts that would be obvious on a laptop won't appear, typically.
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(Score: 2) by butthurt on Tuesday March 29 2016, @07:21PM
True, and if T-Mobile and Sprint allow tethering, but Verizon and AT&T forbid it, then this is fully justifiable.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:39PM
AT&T and Verizon have no business disallowing tethering. If you have a limit on how much bandwidth you can use, then it is none of AT&T's business how you use it.
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(Score: 1) by butthurt on Wednesday March 30 2016, @04:04AM
I only meant that the action by Netflix would be justified, not necessarily the overall situation.
Most likely Gravis has it [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Thursday March 31 2016, @09:50PM
That *might* justify it if there was no way to get video from your phone to a larger screen without tethering. But plenty of phones support direct HDMI output.
(Score: 1) by butthurt on Thursday March 31 2016, @10:06PM
I hadn't thought of that. Tork's comment [soylentnews.org] alludes to it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Tork on Tuesday March 29 2016, @08:05PM
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