The dumbest attack on the Netflix "free ride" you have ever read

[zacharypinter]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/the-dumbest-attack-on-the-netflix-free-ride-you-have-ever-read.ars

[Hates_]

Seems the Mercury News piece has now been taken down, although the comments remain.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_18730079

[shaggyfrog → Hates_]

I'm not surprised. They should be embarrassed.

I pay for my Internet bandwidth. Netflix pays for theirs. So the ISPs need a surcharge for what again? What a bunch of parasites.

This shakedown attempt is so transparent it makes SOPA look like the Magna Carta.

[sirclueless → shaggyfrog]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Just sounds to me like some incompetent writer tried to wrangle yet another op-ed out of the Comcast vs. Level 3 lawsuit. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-12-01-comcast01_ST_N....

[jbrackett → Hates_]

It is quite an old article. As it says it may be in the archive though I did not check.