Apple's live TV service would be exempt from net neutrality rules
You might think that a ban on fast lanes would make it harder for companies with heavy content to deliver — streaming video being among the heaviest — to make special arrangements with Internet service providers to ensure that their content flowed smoothly to our homes, without hiccups, stutters or spinning beach balls.
But you would be wrong.
The FCC's proposal specifically exempts so-called CDNs — content delivery networks — from the paid prioritization rules.
CDNs are servers that companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix install in third-party data centers to improve performance by optimizing delivery across the Internet — bartering for the privilege of co-location or paying for it outright. Money may be exchanged in these transactions, but it's for "paid interconnection," not "paid prioritization." On such distinctions is Internet policy built.
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