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How Comcast became a toll-collecting, nuke-wielding hydra

9 pointsby flyingyetiover 14 years ago

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joelhausover 14 years ago
Terrific analysis. This bit summarizes much of the article:<p>&#62; Level 3 thought it was entirely fair—in part because this is not traffic that is transiting <i>through</i> Comcast's network, but traffic that is headed for Comcast subscribers and was <i>requested</i> by them. Under this view, Comcast is trying to charge a content provider for the very access to content that it is selling to its own customers.<i>