>By definition there is little business opportunity in markets where people don't want to pay. Counterexample: network TV, radio, facebook.com, gmail.com, pret

>By definition there is little business opportunity in markets where people don't want to pay. Counterexample: network TV, radio, facebook.com, gmail.com, pretty much all of the ad-supported web. >Peer-to-peer only ever made sense for popular stuff that people won't pay for. Counterexample: Skype (freeium model on a P2P network). The content wasn't "popular" it was private phone conversations and people paid for it. Counterexample: Bitcoin (runs on a P2P network). People pay fees to miners so that the network relays their transactions. Counterexample: The internet. A giant P2P inter-network with all sorts of different business relationships. Many of which involve paying someone to send a packet that is only meaningful to a particular party.