Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Owen DeLong wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2014, at 16:00 , Brett Glass <nanog () brettglass com> wrote:
>
> > At 10:25 AM 7/13/2014, Charles Gucker wrote:
> >
> > > ALL ISPs are in the business of providing access to
> > > the Internet.    If you feel the need to rebel, then I suggest you
> > > look at creative ways to increase revenue from your customers,
> > My customers do not want me to "creatively" find ways to extract
> > additional money from them so as to cover expenses that Netflix
> > should be covering. Nor do they want me to subsidize Netflix
> > subscribers from the fees from non-Netflix subscribers. They
> > want to pay a fair price for their Internet that does not include
> > paying ransom to third parties.
> Why should Netflix be covering those expenses? Your customers
> asked for the content from Netflix. They paid you to deliver it and they
> paid Netflix for the content.

Not for nothing, but in the old days, if I asked Netflix to send me a CD 
in the mail, they paid the postage - out of the fee I paid them.

Miles Fidelman

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