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Originally Posted by oblonsky
Not a popular view but why do content owners have an absolute right to all the revenue from their content? They didn't pay for and build the IP networks. They're making money off the back of this significant investment by communications companies, who in turn are making money off the back of the content (either directly through subscription or indirectly through advertising).
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First of all, the vast amount of investment required to develop the architecture for the Internet in the UK was paid for with public money. The PSTN which is the basic framework for ADSL was installed when BT was a nationalised company and even after privatisation BT have been heavily subsidised by our taxes/
Secondly, to suggest content owners don't have exclusive rights to their content is crazy. They pay their provider for the transport of that content to their subscribers and they generally pay significantly for that.
I have been in the IT industry for a long long time and have spent time in negotiations with IDC owners in and around London for large online projects (Globix, Level3, WorldCom, Redbus and BT to name just a few) and the cost of datacenter real estate (in this country mostly owned by the backbone providers) and bandwidth for a busy website (which would allow you to monetise it) is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. So suggesting they should give up some of their revenues from that content is ridiculous. The network providers get their remuneration through their tariffs, if they are unable to make satisfactory profits they have the right to raise those tariffs.
This is exactly why Net Neutrality is so important and exactly why it is causing such global concern.
Alexander Hanff