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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
So if someone is listening to Spotify all day long, every day right now and their ISP offers data-free access to Spotify, you are saying NN is going to change nothing for that user?
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You seem to be stuck on Spotify. This is a music streaming service. It's hardly bandwidth intensive these days. You could stream Spotify on every device you own for entire month and still not use 1/100th of your bandwidth plan.
Yes, a company could still offer you free bandwidth for Spotify if they wish. At the same time, they would not be able to say "We offer you free bandwidth for Spotify, but if you use Amazon Music we charge you extra".
Without net neutrality a company would be able to say "We have a deal in place with Amazon Music, but if you want to use Spotify we have the legal right to throttle it" which makes it pretty much worthless. One company could form a partnership with your Internet provider and more or less lock out all of their competitors. That's just bad business, and bad for the consumers.
My Internet company should not be able to choose what streaming services I use. What if you Internet company has a deal in place with Amazon Prime, but you want to watch something on Netflix and they can throttle it so every thirty seconds it buffers.
How is anyone not fully behind net neutrality?