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This would be an unmitigated disaster. Everyone would call Comcast, Comcast would tell the story their way, and things would be even worse than they are now. They'd probably get on national nightly news talking about how their "partners" "unfairly" "cut them off from the Internet".

It would be pretty interesting to watch the spin machine in action, though. 100% pure PR spin.

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That's why you throttle Comcast customers. Can't it go both ways?

The point is that if Netflix throttles Comcast customers, the customers stream from Comcast On-Demand instead. They don't switch away from Comcast because they can't, which is what makes this an unbalanced situation.

Also, don't forget that Comcast now owns NBC. :-)

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