The ISPs' customers are already paying for the bandwidth. ISPs are just dumb pipes, whether they want to be or not. Most of them do not have to compete, so why not just charge their actual customers more if they want to make more money?
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The ISPs' customers are already paying for the bandwidth. ISPs are just dumb pipes, whether they want to be or not. Most of them do not have to compete, so why not just charge their actual customers more if they want to make more money?
What makes you think Netflix doesn't pay for bandwidth? Do you think ISPs just connect Netflix's servers to the Internet for free for some reason? Netflix probably has one of the largest bandwidth bills in the world.
There is no one at the government telling ISPs what to charge their customers, and Net Neutrality does not prevent them from charging their customers more.
For which Netflix pays Amazon an ungodly amount of money to host the servers and deliver the bandwidth to the Internet.
So riddle me this batman?Hail Stalin?
If direct tv started using a Hopper 3.....what happens?.....how does the magic free market solve the problem?
Simple mindless quotes, that arnt actual, or any thing close to reality is the world we live in!
Look at the problem with knockoff items?......Without a solid governemt to shut down ilegal doings from citizens, products ,or corporations.....
You people just hate, you must look deeper in any problem or solutions.....Catchy phrases are a joke!
All content providers pay for the large/huge bandwidth that it takes for their content to leave their servers to reach the end user.
If you put your servers into to a co-location facility part of your bill is based on how much bandwidth you consume, Netflix is no different. The issue is Netflix pays their provider, say Level3, but your provider say Verizon (who you already pay for bandwidth) also wants Netflix to pay them directly even though Netflix already paid Level3.
AZ is right.
The free market is created by the government. The alternative to government is anarchy, not a free market. Now, if I say any more, we'll have to retire to ThePit.
Hmmm. I think the case can be made that the market came first, and as it developed, it created government out of need.
AZ is right.
The free market is created by the government. The alternative to government is anarchy, not a free market. Now, if I say any more, we'll have to retire to ThePit.
The free market is the natural order of things, it is distorted by government, occasionally that is mildly helpful.
Interesting comment. Didn't anarchy come first before anything like a market could be established?
Are cats Anarchists?
They get along fine, in a set social structure, when food is plentiful. Is that the beginnings of government? It is certainly the beginnings of Order.
Oog and Ugg learned to get along. Then the rudiments of trade began when each had extra of something the other wanted. Where do you say anarchy ends? Can there be an Anarchist society?
It’s all in how you define the words.
They get along fine, in a set social structure, when food is plentiful. Is that the beginnings of government? It is certainly the beginnings of Order.
Oog and Ugg learned to get along. Then the rudiments of trade began when each had extra of something the other wanted. Where do you say anarchy ends? Can there be an Anarchist society?
It’s all in how you define the words.
I see anarchy not being relevant in the discussion at all. The free market is a natural order, which Navy makes a great point about. Can you have a market with a government. Yes. Can you have a market without? Yes as well. Government intervention is the creation of things such as the black market.
I say to anybody who thinks we need more government, to try living in a place where the government tells you what to watch, how you watch it, and not only that- they take half of your paycheck as well. On this Christmas "Eve Eve," I'm thankful to be here in the good old USA, where we can watch whatever we want on Dish and pay as much (or as little) as we want for it!
That’s all I think anyone wants. Freedom for choice for all.
