[LINK] Telstra: In one hand, out another

[Adam Todd]

At 16:36 28/06/2004 +1000, Ian Johnston wrote:
>Jan
>
>Its an *online* DVD library, presumably its users are buying content,
>consuming Telstra bandwidth and, hopefully, generating shareholder profits.
>(From the metadata on this Telstra-badged website
><http://www.fetchmemovies.com.au>: fetchmemovies - Australia's premiere
>online DVD library).

It's very slow, and I'm on ADSL - Telstra Wholesale ADSL I'm told too!

(Ok, that's the problem it's not a Telstra product to the end user so they 
scam the ISP and the user gets pissed off.)

>It's probably a business that Telstra can justify being in.

Hey what happened? When it started to load, I had a "lowercase" navigation 
down the left and was about to click on directors, then I get a page with 
pictures and not search links?

I found the page
http://www.fetchmemovies.com.au/user/homeNewUser2.php

Very interesting :)  Especially what it does and why.  (Nothing nasty, just 
interesting.)

OK, this is the same service as "homescreen.com.au" where you rent DVD's 
each month for the cost of postage basically.

>PS: The registrant of the domain name - fetchmemovies.com.au - is George
>Patterson Bates, now George Patterson Partners
><http://www.georgepatts.com.au> - a Telstra advertising agency
><http://tinyurl.com/yv65c> (ASX PDF).

Well you have to dominate the market somehow.