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I remember election night MSM sources were giving him like a 2-3% chance to win lol

Hope it's not too late or someone else can answer.

I have a few concerns with net neutrality but the biggest one probably has to do with service providers not being able to bill netflix/cnet/other more for streaming their services.

I 100% whole heatedly agree that ISP's should not be able to charge companies more simply because those companies are competition to said ISP... but I've read that at absolute peak times Netflix has used up to 40% of the countries bandwidth (at that time). Obviously this isn't all of the time.

So my question is this... if a company like Netflix/Hulu/OnLive (games) or any HD Streaming service is able to use that much bandwidth, there has to be an infrastructure cost associated with that increased amount of bandwidth use, and that increased infrastructure cost has to be paid for by someone and since they cannot charge the companies that are profiting from this infrastructure the cost will be covered by the consumer (it sure as shit isn't coming from profits, unless it has to). So in this situation, why is it not okay to charge the company who is using your services (to the extent that it's almost like they're renting hardware) more based on said usage?

Thank you so much for answering! I see your reasoning for sure, but doesn't it get to a point that the increased demand in streaming (especially when it comes from one or a group of companies... say maybe require a high threshold of data use like 5tb/mo to start increasing costs) starts to strain on hardware more therefore requiring increased infrastructure costs? That leads to increased costs for the consumer, not the company that is causing the increase in demand?