[AusNOG] Netflix coming to Australia

[Robert Hudson]

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.

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.

The business models aren't close to comparable.


On 27 May 2014 14:06, Curtis Bayne <curtis at bayne.com.au> wrote:

> It's hardly surprising that telco revenues consistently exceed content
> revenues, given that telecommunications is considered an essential service.
>
> Also, creativity is not a limited resource that you can monopolize and
> then rent seek. Spectrum, on the other hand...
>
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