Recommended reading:

http://www.jacobrosenberg.com/2014/02/24/cdn-games/

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:

Listers

Apologies for cross posting.

With the caving in of Netflix to Comcast's 'bullying' is the debate for Net

Neutrality become irrelevant?

Have market forces rendered this very emotive issue irrelevant?

Is the action by Comcast Anti-Competitive?

Why aren't the authorities in the US (the so called beacon for Net

Neutrality) not doing anything about it?

For the past two decades, the Internet has operated as an unregulated,

competitive free market. Given the tendency of networked industries to lapse

into monopoly--think of AT&T's 70-year hold over telephone service, for

example--that's a minor miracle. But recent developments are putting the

Internet's decentralized architecture in danger.

In recent months, the nation's largest residential Internet service

providers have been demanding payment to deliver Netflix traffic to their

own customers. On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Netflix has

agreed to the demands of the nation's largest broadband provider, Comcast.

The change represents a fundamental shift in power in the Internet economy

that threatens to undermine the competitive market structure that have

served Internet users so well for the past two decades.

Read on:-

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/02/23/comcasts-deal-with-netflix-makes-network-neutrality-obsolete/

Ali Hussein

+254 0770 906375 / 0713 601113

"I fear the day technology will surpass human interaction. The world will

have a generation of idiots".  ~ Albert Einstein

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