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Originally Posted by uh-oh
netflix gets paid through your voluntary subscription. if they sign a deal with an ISP that fucks over their consumers, they fuck over themselves.
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Actually, they wouldn't. I see what you're getting at but in the end they'll earn money on it from all the customers they otherwise wouldn't have had. They're hitting a market demographic that might not even be on it with this, and if they don't they might have someone else come through and take their spot since Netflix.com is getting their traffic capped by speed so the quality will suck in certain areas or people that watch more than, let's say, 2gb worth of videos on different sites unless they pay more.
Most people that use the internet got limited knowledge of it and use is limited to email or work, newspapers, facebook, Youtube and a few other social medias, perhaps Spotify or something similar and that's it. So if they got a choice between Netflix and a slightly worse competitor they won't care enough to get it and will watch it a friends house or not at all.
If dataplan comes into play I think Netflix will be one of the first ones to jump on it. They know how crucial it can be to not be part of change (Blockbuster comes to mind), and being part of change based on how society works is something Netflix has done since the very start.
It's like EA with Battlefront II, they didn't fuck up at all with crazy microtransactions for in-game shit that gives you advantages, a practice gamers have hated since the start. They made their investors happy, they barely lost anything on the backlash and every 12 year old out there is going to get the new Star Wars game for Christmas so they can put the nosebleed microtransactions back into it and get their ratings back up on wall street.
One thing is what you want to do but as you say: money will always be the common denominator in disputes like these. No matter how much Netflix is against it it will be detrimental and if this goes on for a while Netflix will eventually be forced to join one of these dataplans to continue the way they do now/always have. It's too big to pass up on when it's in full effect.
What I don't get is why you're still neutral to this whole thing. Why not take a stand @
uh-oh? Big Baby is on to something, who knows how far the rabbit hole will go if this goes through and can develop further. I might not like or even defend BB's gimmick 24/7 but I will forever fight for his right to act however he wants online without some FCC faggots telling him how to behave or try to censor him because that's what we're at the beginning of right now.