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Is it necesseraly bad? Netflix making deals with ISPs is exactly what market self-regulation is.

That's a nice video streaming service you have there. It would be a shame if it were to suffer from sudden 'congestion' issues.

Is there any evidence of that actually happening? By that I mean Netflix being specifically throttled. To date, we've yet to see any evidence that Netflix-originated traffic has been targeted. The interlink capacity has been under dispute, but all traffic carried by those interlinks is subject to congestion, not just Netflix.

> Is there any evidence of that actually happening?

Yes. People are buying VPN service to get adequate NetFlix performance. SPs are running a protection racket.

All that demonstrates is that interlink between the ISP and other transit providers isn't saturated. By using a VPN you change the routing of your request, you don't just mask the endpoint. A VPN'd request that gets carried over a saturated interlink would suck just as much as a non-VPN'd request.

Not if the ISP is a roll up of municipal and state created monopolies.

Which incidentally is a general argument for laissez faire capitalism. And in the particular, here, is an argument for regulation.

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