We heard this excuse from Blockbuster and Hollywood Video when RedBox and Netflix ate their lunch
This comment is a complete non sequitur in an otherwise good exchange. Blockbuster and Netflix weren't in dispute over who should pay for sharing an infrastructure node shared between them. Instead it's a generic "popular Internet company good, other company bad" argument.
There is this tendency to paint any dispute between established companies and new internet companies as "old-world archaic business models" holding up progress, but it's inane. There's nothing obsolete about selling bandwidth for money. Indeed, in a "modern data-driven society" building and owning the pipes is more relevant and important than ever!
