hi Guys
Yeah I learn't about Hola and I agree sharing bandwidth opens up a lot of security problems and it is definately something I will stay clear of.....but this type of global interconnectivity is the way the internet world is moving..towards a networked world where everyone will be able to connect to the internet of things..obviously there will be teething issues...
If this type of global interconnectivity thing grabs hold then these local rights to stream selective media will within a few years become unworkable..Making geo-unblocking illegal while the world is heading towards a total networked system seems totally stupid. Something that Luddites would do..eh?..I think Netflix and other innovative type companies are slowly working towards an interconnected world..They are the disruptors..so they don't need to enter the fight to stop geo-blocking.
I'm still at a loss why Spark would ever want to take a non-innovative system approach, spend millions into creating another internet streaming media resource from the ground up (suffering the experience curve cost effects as all newbies do), buying up rights, and enter into an overcrowded industry going head to head against some very well organised very powerful experienced competitors + entering into a market that is very vunerable to distruptive technology..
Spark's actions comes across to me as something a disruptee company would do.. The trick is to not become mired in the protection of the system being disrupted