# CNN.com videos

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-com-videos/103602>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 14, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-com-videos/103602 "2002-04-14T19:12:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![cainxinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@cainxinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cainxinth)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cnn-com-videos/103602/1 "2002-04-14T19:12:33Z")

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Recently I was reading a story on [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) and when I clicked on a link for the accompanying video file associated with the story I was informed that a $5.00 a month or $40.00 a year subscription is now required to see [CNN.com](http://CNN.com) videos. I don’t know about you but I use a many websites for my news, and if each of them started charging similar amounts for their “bonus” material I would be broke. I would be much happier to pay a small fee per video I download (say $0.25, that way if I watch 20 videos in a month they’ll still get their $5, but if I don’t I’m not paying for something I’m not using, and I could spread my money among several sites instead of limiting myself only to one).