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Originally Posted by pietvo
For the channels that you don't have to pay separately, the cable fee also includes payment of royalties for the contents as the cable company has to pay these. Only for special pay channels the royalty will be paid from the fee for these channels.
Now if the youth (or others) are used to this model (you pay a monthly fee for accessing the medium and you get all the content for free) then they may be tempted to apply the same model to the internet: you pay a monthly fee for using the medium and you get most of the content free. And maybe that will become the model of the future, who knows?
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No true in the US. The channels usually have to pay the cable companies a small fee per subscriber to be carried. They get their money out of advertizing, just like broadcast TV.
And the youth of the US do apply the same model to the internet...