Why should Comcast care whether Netflix pays their ISP or not? Either way, someone's trying to give them data for free.
And Netflix has its own CDN, which wants to connect directly to last-mile ISPs. In that setup, they aren't paying anyone other than the end ISP.
>When a Comcast customer uses their Comcast internet connection to use Netflix, or Google, or HN, or any other site, it is that customer who is using Comcast's bandwidth. It is not Netflix, Google, or HN using it.
This is pointless semantics. If I send you something, we can either call it me using the bandwidth, or you using it. Doesn't change my point here.
