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Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue

Posted by samzenpus on from the paying-the-price dept.

jfruh (300774) writes "If you're a Verizon broadband customer and you've tried streaming Netflix over the past few days, you might've seen a message telling you that the "Verizon network is crowded" and that your stream is being modified as a result. Verizon isn't taking this lying down, saying that there's no proof Verizon is responsible for Netflix's issues, and is threatening to sue over the warnings."

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  1. TOECDN solves mostly all of your problems by fredan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Since we are talking about static content, you can have it cached right next to the consumer, if you want.

    BUT.

    No one is interested in a solution which not only solve this, but also let anyone to use and cache their content, independent of the provider.

    What everybody in the Internet industry is doing instead is trash-talking each other.

  2. Re:I have both by ilsaloving · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Fine, it's not FIOS. That doesn't negate the GPs argument. You agree to pay X for a certain service, and expect them to give that to you. Period.