This is one of those situations where I completely agree with Netflix. Why should they have to pay a tax just because their website is popular and serves a lot of traffic.
This seems like extortion more than a tax.
This seems like extortion more than a tax.
Anyway, in the end, the ISP may just "limit Netflix bandwidth". Then he will lose some customers (changing ISP)... but Netflix will lose some customers too (leaving Netflix because of bad quality compared to another content provider). This would be a lose/lose game
Or both may agree to share a part of the burden of "heavy contents", most for ISP et a bit for Netflix
The users are already paying their ISP for the traffic they're generating. Whether they're using it to access Netflix or any other website.
So they got creative and figured out they can ask for a Netflix tax to make it seems like it's fair compensation for the "huge" bandwidth the service is consuming.
If that is your argument, then the entire subscription contract with the ISP is inherently fraudulent as they are advertising a service that they are incapable of providing. Instead of throttling netflix, customers should be suing their ISP for defrauding them.