Comment Re:sell is the key word. Cogent not paying Verizon (Score 1) 289
Ok, I'll bite; how is anyone supposed to "quit paying them at some point"? In my area you have two choices, either Comcast or Verizon. I know plenty of people who use one or the other (I use Comcast myself) and no one and I mean no one likes either one. People complain endlessly about the service, the support, the cost of equipment or what seems like annual price hikes of $1 here and a dollar there. And don't get me started on Verizon, they make it so that to use the channel lineup on your cable boxes you have no choice but to use their junky Actiontec router that is not only difficult for anyone but the most advanced user to program but also many of the advanced features you find on Linksys, Netgear or Asus routers don't work properly. But for the sake of this argument, what if in the end both Verizon and Comcast throttle Netflix, what are people going to do and who do you suggest they switch to? It's a very closed market with only those two choices (in this area anyway) for internet and TV service and it's just not realistic to say "just quit paying" because you say to Verizon "You're throttling my Netflix and the service is unusable so I'm not paying you this month" and Verizon will happily say "Ok, we're turning off your service due to non-payment".
I'm standing by what I said, the customer is paying for their internet service and it's wrong for any ISP to throttle a particular site that the customer wants to use.