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Originally Posted by Barcalounger
If you read the posts you were responding to you'd know that my guess is that Netflix is too big to be a huge target of tomfoolery. And creating these secret barriers to entry for the next netflix type will not sabotage it's own ISP business. You are just invisible hand waving away that they won't be doing the exact thing they just fought in court to be able to do.
I don't recall them arguing that they needed the flexibility to smother the next Netflix. Nor is it clear why you would expect the next Netflix to be something that competes, at all, with ISPs rather than being purely complimentary to their ISP product.
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I'll also clear up the ISP content owner thing since you keep jumping back and forth on it - some big ISP are owned by media giants and content owners, while some are not, and most of them are in the content selling business through TV packages. Is your stance really that the company that brings you FiOS TV has no business interest in content?
Obviously Verizon has a business interest in content, in that their entire business is built on selling access to content. What's completely illogical is the idea that they have some underpants gnome plot to stop selling reliable access to content that's going to make them a lot of money. Like, do you think Comcast extorts money from ESPN for the privilege of transporting their content? That's not how it works.