Chalk up a victory (at least for now) for Verizon in its ongoing spat with Netflix. After receiving a legal warning from Verizon regarding messages being sent to users when the Verizon network was slow, Netflix is ceasing and desisting.

Netflix communications VP Joris Evers said the following in a blog post today:

“We started a small scale test in early May that lets consumers know, while they’re watching Netflix, that their experience is degraded due to a lack of capacity into their broadband provider’s network. We are testing this across the U.S. wherever there is significant and persistent network congestion This test is scheduled to end on June 16. We will evaluate rolling it out more broadly.
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In the post, Evers still got his digs in at Verizon:

“Some large US ISPs are erecting toll booths, providing sufficient capacity for services requested by their subscribers to flow through only when those services pay the toll. In this way, ISPs are double-dipping by getting both their subscribers and Internet content providers to pay for access to each other. We believe these ISP tolls are wrong because they raise costs, stifle innovation and harm consumers. ISPs should provide sufficient capacity into their network to provide consumers the broadband experience for which they pay.”

Do you think Evers is right that Comcast, Verizon and the like are “raising costs, stifling innovation, and harming consumers?”

[via GigaOM]