S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge

Sun Oct 10 22:10:57 UTC 2021

* dougb at dougbarton.us (Doug Barton) [Sun 10 Oct 2021, 23:44 CEST]:
>First, I'm not saying "should." I'm saying that given the market 
>economics, having the content providers who use "a lot" of bandwidth 
>do something to offset those costs to the ISPs might be the 
>best/least bad option. Whether "something" is a local cache box, 
>peering, money, or <other> is something I think that the market 
>should determine.

Sounds like you think SK should be paying Netflix for bringing their 
content all the way from the US to the Korean peninsula. That's 
some expensive wet cable being used there.

	-- Niels.