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Customer <> ISP <> ISP <> Customer

Why does one end of this example have to pay both ISPs in your view?



They don't, and I never suggested they did. Netflix had their own ISPs. Netflix wanted the Customer's ISP to give them free bandwidth so they could offload the traffic from their other ISPs.




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