[shirro]

The thing I find most interesting about a service like Netflix is the complete inversion of costs of product and delivery for someone in Australia. A monthly Netflix subscription costs less than a couple of coffees here. The data caps on Internet connections and the inaction of successive governments to address market failures means I could pay hundreds of dollars a month to stream a service like Netflix. It can be quite a lot cheaper to buy box sets of shows or take out a cable tv subscription than pay data costs but you don't get the same flexibility.

I thought the towns local video store would have followed others around the world into bankruptcy by now but they are still charging $7 for an overnight rental and still have customers.