<div dir="ltr">Not to mention that once you do purchase a piece of content, you don't continually have to pay for it and re-download it to enjoy it again, whereas you need to continually communicate with people to continue to communicate with them.<div>
<br></div><div>I imagine that telcos would make substantially less money if they could only sell a service to us as a one-off (and at the price of a movie or TV episode too). And I'm sure that the movie studios would love to charge me $100 a month to access a couple hundred hours of content viewing and a 1.5GB download limit.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The business models aren't close to comparable.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 27 May 2014 14:06, Curtis Bayne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:curtis@bayne.com.au" target="_blank">curtis@bayne.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It's hardly surprising that telco revenues consistently exceed content revenues, given that telecommunications is considered an essential service.<br>
<br></div>Also, creativity is not a limited resource that you can monopolize and then rent seek. Spectrum, on the other hand...<br>
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