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Peering agreements are free when no money changes hands. Your argument simplifies to "because Comcast said so."



And free peering agreements (called settlement-free agreements) only happen when the transit is more or less balanced.


So, if Netflix just increases data that viewers are sending it, it's okay?

So if Netflix adds

setInterval('EqualizeBandwidth',1000/24) function EqualizeBandwidth(){ $.post('netflix.com/dosbox', {data:randomLongStringEqualtoVideoFrame+1}); }

Then comcast will pay them. (And most subscribers will be fine if they only watch < 31 movies a month given an 8gb movie.)

But bonus if netflix causes every one of their customers to hit the 250gb cap and therefore hate comcast. Any politician that has family trying to watch netflix would complain of overages then and shut comcast out.




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