So, if the TV stations are spectrum hogs then here's a way to deal with it.
Remember when, in the US, the cablecos started up? They got their content by, ahem, redistributing broadcast TV stations.
Here's my subversive little proposition. Let the TV stations keep their spectrum. Just make it so that anyone can redistribute their content on a not-for-profit basis. What's good for the cablecos is good for you and me.
Suddently, every man and his dog will be legitimately uploading and downloading TV progams. BitTorrent and torrentocracy will become as mainstream as VCR and TiVo. And you've just sown the seeds of the replacement content distribution businesses, divorced it from connectivity provision, and given symmetric network connections a big boost.
If we're blessed with another kid, and it's a boy, I think I'll have to call him Machiavelli Geddes. Although Mrs G, looking over my shoulder, doesn't seem so keen. Perhaps she thinks we'll have another girl. Machiavella Geddes, then, I guess.
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