<div dir="ltr">Ok... I read it... and it has some foundation... 13 years ago when it was written... it is very much out of date and non-relevant for these days.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 7:50 AM, Mark ZZZ Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">markzzzsmith@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> From: Skeeve Stevens <<a href="mailto:skeeve%2Bausnog@eintellegonetworks.com">skeeve+ausnog@eintellegonetworks.com</a>><br>
>To: Bruce Forster <<a href="mailto:bruce@tubes.net.au">bruce@tubes.net.au</a>><br>
>Cc: "<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</a>><br>
>Sent: Monday, 26 May 2014 9:42 AM<br>
>Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia<br>
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>I agree... although if you can get Foxtel via Cable, then you can get BigPond at the moment, then NBNCo later.<br>
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>If you are getting it via Satellite then I'd also agree with you.<br>
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>Thing is... content is king, but quality content is an even bigger king, and I think with the quality that is coming, people will choose services that enable that content.<br>
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It might be glamorous, and the high profile workers in it might get paid very well (a.k.a. movie stars), but it isn't king. People spend more money on their inter-personal communications with their friends and their family than they do on their entertainment via content.<br>
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"Content is Not King"<br>
<a href="http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742" target="_blank">http://firstmonday.org/article/view/833/742</a><br>
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Another sign is positions within the top largest companies lists. Disney doesn't make it into the global top 100 companies by annual sales, where as Verizon, AT&T, NTT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica do (click on the 'Sales' title to sort by that column).<br>
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<a href="http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/global2000/list/</a><br>
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