On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote:
> The court for DC affirmed that the FCC has the right to regulate the > Internet, but in a complicated ruling that will probably go to the Supreme > Court stated that it doesn't have the right to make decisions on what web > sites or material broadband ISPs can give preferential (or no) treatment, > claiming that the ISPs are "information services," not common carriers like > the phone company: > > > http://www.thewrap.com/federal-appeals-court-overturns-fccs-net-neutrality-rules/ > > This is not the end of this case, I assure you. > One reason this is not the end by a long shot is that while some of the deepest pockets in corporate America are on the pro side of the CS court decision, those on the other side are not exactly paupers, including the nice folks at Netflix. "Michael Pachter, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, estimates that Netflix could incur annual fees of anywhere from $144 million to $936 million as a result, according to an investor note provided to *Mashable*, depending on how much broadband providers charge for data delivery. The news appeared to cause Netflix investors to start sweating. Netflix stock ceded some ground after the ruling on Tuesday, but experienced a sharp decline Wednesday, dipping by as much as 5% in early trading. That decline is all the more notable considering that the S&P 500, which lists large market cap companies including Netflix, hit an all-time high Wednesday around the same time." http://mashable.com/2014/01/15/netflix-net-neutrality/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Mashable+%28Mashable%29&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner On the one hand, I am very much in favor of net neutrality, and not to prop of Netflix's stock price. OTOH, if it is true that Netflix consumes almost one-third of downstream internet traffic, as this article states, it does seem reasonable that Netflix and its customers pay at least some portion of that huge consumption. Is there a way to impose some kind of high volume tariff on these kinds of sites, and use the funds to expand capacity, or something like that? -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
