I have no problem if Netflix wants to pay for direct connections to ISPs. I do have a problem if they are forced to do it because the ISPs are tweaking their networks in such a way that Netflix is forced into the agreement.

I"m not saying that is what happened.

Yes the electric company bills by usage.

My suggestion to the ISPs is don't false advertise unattainable speeds and "unlimited" service. Advertise/promise what you can deliver without the BS fine print.

If they can't provide the bandwidth they advertise then they need to upgrade or change their business/billing model.

The electric company doesn't charge me more for having inefficient appliances or for using them too much.

We pay for our bandwidth and now the greedy ISPs are wanting to get paid by the content providers (Netflix, Hulu, etc). Do you really think they are going to absorb the additional costs if this continues? Of course not, they will raise their prices.

ISPs rarely deliver what you pay for so them crying that its the content providers fault is BS. The problem is lack of real competition in the ISP market. Most folks have a choice between cable and DSL. Two isn't enough to be very competitive.

This!

Nobody has been able to demonstrate how Aereo is harming the broadcasters. Why? Because they are actually helping them.

Mini golf?

Speed chess? ;-)

I consider games like golf and chess skills rather than sports. To me, sports rely more on athletic factors like speed and strength. Sports competitions are more likely to be divided by sexes (chess shouldn't be) and/or weight classes. Skills competitions shouldn't require divisions by sex or size.

It's a blurry line I have drawn for myself but, right or wrong, that is how I feel about it. I should probably duck now.

Now is a great chance for the competition to "listen to their customers" and increase Netflix performance on their networks without charging Netflix or their customers (directly).

You know, do what they are supposed to do but spin it to make Comcast look like worse than they already do.

Oops I meant Hanlon's.

Courts operated without cell phones and Internet connectivity too. They can always check FB and upload their work later.

Occam's confession? Don't admit to being malicious if you can easily claim you made a mistake? :-)

I doubt Google pushed the update. You should probably be blaming LG.

Your numbers are way off.

I just got one from Amazon for under $100 US. Installed it my self in less than an hour. A local shop would probably install it for less than $100. Now the car dealers do charge $400-$500 to install aftermarket cameras but everyone knows that they charge too much.

"OK so you don't understand how the internet works...."

I've been around a while so I'm pretty sure I have a good enough understanding of how the Internet and companies like AT&T work. This whole thing is a money grab by AT&T (and others). Once they set a precedent there is little to stop them from shaking down others like Netflix and anyone that offers a service that competes with them.

"Hey uhhh, how ya doin? That's a really really nice Internet biznesss you got going there. I would really hate for something to happen to your traffic. I tell ya wut. Today is your lucky day. We just happen to offer insurance for people like you to make sure nuttin happens to those pretty little packets of yours."

Now multiply that times every decent sized ISP and peering provider.