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Worth stating, Australia's censorship didn't phase him... but Valve's would have.

Australia is a significant but minor market. Steam is 'be on this service or fail.'

Careful, you'll summon Smartman Apps (with emojis) to insist mathematics has exactly one perfect unambiguous syntax, where 2*(1+3) is somehow different from 2(1+3), and also reverse Polish notation does-too have parentheses.

Fuck it, let kids watch porn.

That's your worst-case scenario, right? That's why these pearls are clutched? Well I don't care. Minors with ready access to vanilla photographs of naked people, on above-board commercial websites? So what. The horrors imagined by conservative dullards are a mundane experience for millions of people, and relatively few of them become dog-fuckers or axe-murderers. Almost like a healthy libido is normal and 18 isn't the day you take the shrink-wrap off your genitals.

By all means, keep actual smut off broadcast TV. Expect websites to put the weird stuff behind warnings. Don't sell porn to minors. But if your website doesn't take a credit card to visit, hey guess what, anyone can see it, and anyone will. Oh well. People who think that's the end of the world are lunatics who mean it literally.

Stop calling the secret police's kidnappings "mistakes."

Debt is destructive because it detaches prices from reality. It's how school, cars, houses, and medicine became comically unaffordable. If you can make up a number and demand people pay you forever then you don't need to engage in actual mundane capitalism.

It sounds like you've got it. It separates two clauses, preferably not more; it works like a soft period.

Misuse is throwing thirteen in a row as a substitute for periods. Or worse, using it in lieu of commas, parentheticals, and footnotes simultaneously. Here you go, Tristram Shandy, good luck keeping this whole page in your head at once.

"The goal is not to remove anything from the market, but rather to receive appropriate compensation."

Right, they'll just license all songs ever.

Or they'll give you a euro each time you hit F5 on "how does Hey Jude go."

This is kinda stupid.

Do they get money when lyrics appear below links in a Google search? And if so - why?

There's a 'but the bad things' buried in the middle, desperately wanting a line break.

I did the same thing initially and tried re-reading it as sass. Especially if "TF2 neglect" was considered positive.

None of that is what defines a monopoly.

There's only one store that matters. They have unthreatened supermajority marketshare. Customers go there by default - sometimes exclusively. Developers can sell there, or they're basically fucked.

What you're concerned about are anti-competitive practices. But some businesses don't need those, to lack any relevant competition. It can just happen. They didn't do anything wrong. They're still monopolies.

Alan Wake 2 didn't make its money back for a year despite being a huge game on the second-biggest service.

Steam doesn't care about other stores because other stores do not matter. They can let other stores sell Steam keys, and it still doesn't threaten their untouchable market share.

And if his yacht sinks, we're boned.