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<p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is why Internet monopolies are bad. Even if Netflix threatened a power pull and dismissed it's own customers connected through Verizon's networks in similar fashion to the fights ESPN, Fox, and AMC have had with Dish Network, consumers wouldn't have an out. Most people on Verizon or Comcast Internet service do not have a competitive option for high speed broadband. Across an alarming percentage of this county, there just isn't competition anymore for the pipe. It's sad really. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Alan</span></p>
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<p>On 2014-02-24 15:37, Jim Kinney wrote:</p>
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<div>The "last mile" providers should not also be backbone providers. Nor should they be stakeholders in content providers.<br /><br /></div>
Along those same lines, content providers should not be in cahoots with backbone, last mile, or other delivery businesses (think Disney and it's own distribution system).</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Stephen R. Blevins <span><<a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/?tid=pm_pop">http://www.washingtonpost.com/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>makes-network-neutrality-<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>obsolete/?tid=pm_pop</a><br /><br /><a href="http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/netflix-packets-being-dropped-every-day-because-verizon-wants-more-money/">http://arstechnica.com/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>information-technology/2014/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>02/netflix-packets-being-<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>dropped-every-day-because-<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>verizon-wants-more-money/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><span style="color: #888888;"><br /> -- <br /> Stephen R. Blevins<br /><a href="mailto:stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com">stephen.r.blevins@gmail.com</a><br /><br /> ______________________________<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>_________________<br /> Ale mailing list<br /><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>listinfo/ale</a><br /> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span>listinfo</a><br /></span></span></blockquote>
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<div dir="ltr">-- <br />James P. Kinney III<br /><em><em><em><em><br /></em></em></em></em>Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.<br /> - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain<br /><em><em><em><em><br /><a href="http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/">http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/</a><br /></em></em></em></em></div>
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