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I was thinking the other day, (Which is code for: This is an Opinion piece from Brusimm) that for some folk, I bet you’d be surprised how often you end up paying for access to the same content.  I’m not talking having to swap out movie collections from VHS to DVD to Blu-ray and whatever comes next.  That’s just a given that we’ll be paying and repaying for the newest media version of our favorite movies.  So no, your dollars are already part of the estimated profit margins from studios for that repeated tech hurdle.

What I’m talking about is, in this example, a movie and how many times someone might actually pay, in one round-a-bout way or another, for that same movie.

For some of us, we head out and watch a movie in the movie theaters.  Then later, if we saw it alone, we’d probably want the spouse to watch it so we might pay for it again on VoD (Video on Demand).

But then if you pay for a movie channel, part of your fee goes to the cable company to pay for rights to air that movie you’ve already paid for twice. (If you subscribe to the right channel that gets it.)

And then there’s the cable bill you pay to be able to access the network your cable company distributes.  Because sooner or later that movie will be on the “free” version of TV.

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