Is this just a USA problem?
Why for example has SKY or TalkTalk in the UK not tried this? What is stopping them?
Why for example has SKY or TalkTalk in the UK not tried this? What is stopping them?
UK ISPs do/have used streaming video and buffering (or the absence of it) as a battleground of quality - you see companies making claims of fastest or "most reliable" broadband, and it gets them customers as a result.
Mucking up people's ability to access Netflix would bring no benefit - people would just choose a different ISP.
At least in the UK, where people have that choice. This situation may not apply in other countries.