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or.......it could be they saw the writing on the wall and have already been paying for better bandwidth since 2014....

Agreed. This is potentially beneficial to Netflix, et. al. at this point. It just makes it harder for startups to compete with them.

Who knows how much of the recent price hikes relate to it too...

I would imagine the majority is Hollywood demanding more and more money to have access to their content.