The answer seems to lie on the text below. As a consumer, I don't see why I should pay for a service I don't use.
When Netflix delivered its movies by mail, the cost of delivery was included in the price their customer paid. It would've been neither right nor legal for Netflix to demand a customer's neighbors pay the cost of delivering his movie. Yet that's effectively what Mr. Hastings is demanding here, and in rather self-righteous fashion. Netflix may now be using an Internet connection instead of the Postal Service, but the same principle applies. If there's a cost of delivering Mr. Hastings's movies at the quality level he desires - and there is - then it should be borne by Netflix and recovered in the price of its service.
But that answer negates net-neutrality principles : All internet traffic should be treated equal. It's a tough debate -- ______________________ Mwendwa Kivuva, Nairobi, Kenya twitter.com/lordmwesh