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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.'"
(Score: 5, Insightful) by jcd on Friday February 21 2014, @12:22AM
Holy non-neutral summaries, Batman!
I don't honestly mind seeing this in the news (net neutrality is definitely a worthy topic), but dropping phrases like "growing like a parasite" and "bandwidth hog" in the summary is going to be a turnoff to new visitors and people who like to make up their own minds about things. Even if said phrases are true.
Ontopic: Net neutrality for the win. I've seen my own network heavily optimized. If I'm watching youtube videos, etherape shows that they're actually coming from local caching servers in chunks rather than straight from google. I don't mind optimization, but I do mind giant corps taking out their feuds on their customers to make a point.
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"
(Score: 5, Informative) by mattie_p on Friday February 21 2014, @12:56AM
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jcd on Friday February 21 2014, @01:01AM
Oh, I get it. Not a problem then.
Man, it has got to suck to be an editor. One little slipup and we all pounce like hyenas. Keep up the good work!
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Nobuddy on Friday February 21 2014, @03:47AM
True? Netflix pays for their bandwidth, and so does the customer. The only parasites are the ISP's wanting to double dip in that traffic.
(Score: 2) by jcd on Friday February 21 2014, @04:07AM
I agree with you. The ISPs are totally out of line. I just meant as a general rule.
"What good's an honest soldier if he can be ordered to behave like a terrorist?"