Imagine being a Twitch streamer whose livelihood is streaming to the website, and out of the blue, your ISP just starts throttling you.
What a nightmare; I've already seen streamers who had to consider moving because of continuous internet issues.
What a nightmare; I've already seen streamers who had to consider moving because of continuous internet issues.
Thanks Net Neutrality.
Or more realistically they could just slip a line in their ToS saying that professional streaming requires a business plan which is $500/mo.
NN wouldn't have solved any of this.
I also get static IP addresses, inbound ports, and no throttling, BT or otherwise.
- Their ISP simply refusing to do business with them.
- Twitch banning them.
- YouTube banning them.
- PayPal banning them.
- Their ISP changing their terms of service to classify professional streaming as business activity and not allowed on their network without a business plan.
- Their city deciding that since your building is zoned for residential only that they have to stream somewhere else.
- The publishers of the games they play submitting DMCA takedowns on their content.
This in no way justifies malicious actions by ISPs but the argument "you can't throttle people's internet, their livelihoods might depend on it" would in practice be met by "well those people shouldn't try to run a business on a consumer internet plan without accepting the risks."