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> and they will charge YOU extra for that

The non-cynical view is the under NN you are paying for the huge amount of Netflix traffic whether you're a subscriber or not. When that cost is passed to the subscribers directly it's better for everyone, no? For subscribers it's probably a mild hike but but non-subscribers get a discount.



No. Netflix customers pay for their usage by buying their service plan. You don't need to ban NN to have usage caps.


Sure, but consumer 'service plans' are an abstraction on top of the reality that you pay to send traffic through someone eles's network. Why do you think that the rules for last-mile ISPs should be different?




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