Netflix And Comcast Strike New Deal To Improve Netflix Streams → Re: Comcast: Pay Up!

"somehow the evil Comcast is extorting money from Netflix"

No one seems to understand how peering works. If you have equal traffic in both directions it's usually settlement free for both parties. When one side is heavily lopsided to the other one side pays the other. I can't see where any real amount of traffic is going to head to Netflix's network so Netflix paying the bulk of the expense is in line with any other peering agreement.

Quite so. Basically that's what this article says over at »blog.streamingmedia.com/ ··· ong.html (hat tip to AVonGauss for the pointer).

Ok, if someone pays for service from comcast, an ISP, which stands for Internet Service Provider, they are in fact not paying for "internet service" as most of the world would define the word "internet"??? Aka no expectation that any user can access any digital bit available "on the internet". ?