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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • That’s the dangerous aspect of capitalism. The best thing for a business is to have no competition, but the best thing for us is fierce competition. Take the internet. ISPs fought hard early on to get regional monopolies which they exploit today. Nobody can compete with Comcast where I live because Comcast will just use their market position to price them out. Is it really a free market if one company is completely invulnerable? Comcast might be free, but are its competitors or customers free? Free market needs to be redefined. Our government has the power to fix this, they just don’t feel like it.













  • Obligatory I am not a lawyer, this is just my opinion.

    A let’s play is a derivative work. You can claim fair use, but that’s hard to do. Fair use often boils down to a question of ‘does the derivative work compete with the original enough to cause a loss in sales?’ Think of when people film themselves watching a movie for YouTube, without cutting anything out and barely commentating over anything, meaning that someone could watch their video instead of the movie and get almost the same content.

    In this case, he filmed himself playing the entirety of a visual novel. I think it’s fair to say that for a lot of people, his let’s play could absolutely substitute for playing the game, thus losing sales for the developer.