I knew this train was coming, and could see the lights on the track. Comcast is charging the internet backbone company Level 3 an extra fee to send traffic to its customers. No other cable company does this, as Comcast complains that traffic from Netflix(who Level 3 supports) is swamping their infrastructure, and they need to be paid for it. This is the same Comcast that wants to buy Universal/NBC, so they are already flexing their muscles ahead of the FCC decision. How long do you think it will be before AT&T, Cox, Warner, and all of the other cable and telecom's start protesting the amount of Netflix traffic coming through their network.

As I have said, streaming going into the future is going to get a lot more complicated.

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