Or the acquisition of major content suppliers like Disney, rather than giving money back to shareholders.

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Com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Google (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and from content suppliers like CBS (NYSE:CBS) and Time Warner (TWX) that have been raising the prices of the content they sell to Netflix.

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Content acquisition expenses consist of costs incurred by Netflix in obtaining content from studios, distributors and other suppliers through direct purchases, revenue sharing agreements and license agreements.

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As I posted in September, Netflix faces competition when it comes to buying the licenses to stream content and it also must contend with bandwidth suppliers who charge customers more money when they exceed their monthly bandwidth allotment.

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To kick-start an oil-services industry, Norway calibrated its national-content rules realistically in scope and duration, required foreign suppliers to work closely with local firms and forced Statoil, its national oil company, to bid against rivals to develop fields.

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Caching frequently used content on SSDs or flash memory is becoming a common approach to accelerate performance for most storage system suppliers.

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