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Comcast Hit With FCC Complaint Over Net Neutrality Violations (streamingmedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Non-profit public interest group Public Knowledge has filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission regarding Comcast's Stream TV service. The complaint says that Comcast excludes Stream TV traffic from its own data cap, which is both a violation of its merger agreement and counter to the FCC's Open Internet rules. Stream TV is a $15 per month offering for Xfinity internet customers. It includes local channels, some basic cable, HBO, and the use of a cloud DVR. Most content is streamed over the home network. Public Knowledge's senior staff attorney, John Bergmayer says, "Comcast's actions could result in fewer online video choices for viewers nationwide, while increasing its dominance as a video gatekeeper. If its behavior persists, prices will go up, the number of choices will go down, creators will have a harder time reaching an audience, and viewers will have a harder time accessing diverse and independent programming."
So, I pay my ISP to connect me to the internet
Lets be concise here because you are blowing it right now.
You pay your ISP to deliver the packets that you send, to elsewhere on the internet.
You do not pay your ISP to deliver packets addressed to you. Only the senders of packets are responsible for acquiring their delivery. The spammers want to jizz directly into the mouths of anyone who thinks the receivers of packets pay for them.
It seems like nobody on fucking slashdot knows shit about networks anymore. They defend their pet version of net neutrality by ignoring network economics. A simple analogy is snail mail. The receiver of mail is never on the hook for the cost, because if they were I would be stuffing envelopes addressed to them right now. I would even hire some illegal aliens to help.
If you really want the internet to work the way you guys suggest, then your service plan would cost $100,000/month because someone that isnt a raging idiot would be slamming every ip address that your isp has with packets 24/7/365.
The internet can be a license to print money, or maybe the economics of it doesnt work like you fools think.
"His name was James Damore."