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Kevin Marks kicks the stuffing out of the claim by AT&T and Verizon that if they're going to bring TV over the Internet, they need special status. He argues that people are already building the special services video might require (e.g., distributed caches). Kevin then delivers a crushing comment:

What makes all these choices for sending video over the net possible is precisely the content-independent end to end principle that the telcos want to throw out so they can privilege their 'dedicated pipes' of packets over ours.