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Old 07-22-2011, 08:46 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by macdonald79 View Post
Frankly, I'm amazed Netflix was able to stay in business charging such low prices. ISPs charge Netflix ridiculous fees (for no good reason) to send data over their networks (since they view Nextlix as a threat and are trying to destroy them). Netflix also has to huge pay hundreds of millions of dollars to movies studios and distributors in order to mainatin their library. I have no problem with Netflix raising my bill in order to pay their own.
I know that level3 was making a stink about having to pay for more ports, whatever that is, to act like a CDN for netflix streaming content...to comcast subscribers but this cost was relatively low....they just didn't like the precedent.

netflix has to pay for the dvds only once...then can rent them out as much as they want. for the digital streaming library they need to pay a fee for the rights, which last the length on the contract.
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