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Basically, if a Korean subscriber to a broadband network requests data from your app and you send it, you have to pay that person's ISP.

It's a terrible economic model that punishes peering. Cloudflare and Facebook moved most of their servers overseas to Japan. It's been a long running sh*t show, with lots of lawsuits between Netflix and S. Korea's biggest telecom.

And unfortunately EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wants to bring this model to the EU.

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> It's a terrible economic model that punishes peering.

Isn't that how most international trade agreements work? You either have to pay the taxes to manufacture in the country of origin, or you have to pay the import fees for importing it.

I don't understand what benefit I get as a consumer or small developer from not having models like this. If Netflix is generating 32b in revenue and using a significant amount of bandwidth, shouldnt they have to pay for a larger portion of the infrastructure?

Netflix is paying for the infrastructure because for every byte that Netflix "pushes" there is a "pull" side who is paying for their residential internet access. What is the consumer paying the ISP for if the ISP is charging every service that the consumer is using more money separately?

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