You know, if it weren’t for the DRM, this could be handled a lot more efficiently. Transparent packet caching is a real thing and it works, but not when you’ve heavily encrypted everything. ISPs should be complaining to media providers that the DRM is killing them, ironically those two companies are one in the same thanks to our screwed up vertically integrated media landscape.
Yes, Netflix uses a lot of bandwidth. It also pays for that bandwidth. It’s being recieved by people who also paid for their bandwidth from companies that took $360 billion in government assistance to upgrade their networks, and then just pocketed it. And now they’re complaining that they don’t have the capacity to handle today’s network demands and want everybody to pay the more money. Note that they’re not promising better service or anything, they just want more money.
Netflix is only a bad guy in that it exposed just how much the ISPs have been ripping off the public for years now.
