When you're that rich and that interested in your niche, in a world where there aren't any other ways to catalog then you do what you gotta do even if it's pay

When you're that rich and that interested in your niche, in a world where there aren't any other ways to catalog then you do what you gotta do even if it's pay ~$1 million / year. For Scorsese, by paying for this system he can make sure that he can do the watching and the research he wants, no matter what. The "no matter what" is the important part; no matter matter who makes a show/movie, no matter what his relationship with it's creator/owner, no matter if the studio wipes the tapes hours after airing it just the one time, Scorsese will have his own copy as sure as the sun will rise. For many a rich folk, they will blow 7 figure sums on things they themselves feel are less important than such an ironclad guarantee without a moment's hesitation. It's not too far fetched.