Level 3: Comcast Demands Fees for Web Movie Viewing
“Comcast’s efforts to collect recurring fees from Level 3 go “well beyond” filtering or prioritizing Web traffic, Stortz said. “With this action, Comcast is preventing competing content from ever being delivered to Comcast’s subscribers at all, unless Comcast’s unilaterally determined toll is paid — even though Comcast’s subscribers requested the content,” he said. “With this action, Comcast demonstrates the risk of a ‘closed’ Internet, where a retail broadband Internet access provider decides whether and how their subscribers interact with content.”
And Level 3 went ahead & paid the protection money…not a good sign for webseries makers.
