If I had an extensive comment history there, I would adjust a portion of my highest rated contributions (or any contributions most likely to be read) by rearranging a few words in sentences. A reader can learn to filter out '[Comment deleted]' whereas having to re-read a sentence multiple times to ascertain meaning gets old quickly.

'You wouldn't want to resort tactics to those, because ahd I had no fear government just would taken revenge you on out on'

yes

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Steve Donoghue - Curmudgeonly king of booktube. An outcast, a leper, a pariah!

• Zero filter. Doesn't care about algorithmic exposure. Encourages you not to sub
• Thousands of book recommendations, from romance to World War II to post-apocalypse SF to biography
• Entire novel readalongs with included commentaries
• Extended takedowns of grifters and general book-related stupidity

Channel ID: UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag

Feral Historian - Perceptive media commentary (SFF oriented)

Channel ID: UC4tpMC_bflphcXUtPk59Vyw

ramblinactivist - A UK left-liberal conservationist tackles economics, politics, etc. and profiles a whole lot of interesting books. Shows you how to make a portable stove for your illiicit camping excursions too. He's no longer active but there's a keen mind at work here

Channel ID: UClZOu4ZeZP75cx2d4t5gHbA

Yes it is, that's what I'm getting at - independent output's share of total output increasing significantly

Responses ITT have focused on legal and technical roadblocks. But if you can imagine a world where cultural production is even slightly less consolidated and corporate, where we start doing more of it for ourselves and our social circles, a cultural roadblock starts to emerge. How do I copy illicitly if the output is specialized and uniquely calibrated to the personal tastes of a hyper-small audience? Another way of asking the question might be: if mass markets don't mean much anymore and it's easy to make and propagate things ourselves, does piracy still exist? Or do we recognize that copying is a fundamental mechanism of culture, and there's no longer any point in encumbering it for the sake of the profit motive?

I think the remarks of Denuvo hardly mattering for Ubisoft titles because they're shitty games to start with, or jokes about Disney succeeding in making a film that will never get pirated (Snow White), start to get at this question

which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia

State/corps: Mission accomplished

I would love a politician to try explain why they were so committed to killing vaping

Narrator: The main reason was ego

I suspect the high tax no longer has much of a harm reduction/uptake suppression utility, and that the Aus government secretly knows this, but they are hopelessly addicted to the revenue so will enact overbearing new laws to protect the income stream.

The reasonble approach is to wean nicotine users off black market product by removing the price disparities. The only way to do that is by accepting a much lower tax intake than the current arbitrary, punitive one (perhaps VAT * 1.5 or 2?)

I remember the Australian government crowing about their world-first plain packaging initiative many years ago. Talk about fighting the last war lol

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466 https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/

tldr OP shouldn't be posting Forbes articles

Anglophone country but I would rather not specify.

Yes the BBC has its own legacy wierdness - and sadly a track record of protecting predators in order to protect itself

The old metric used by free-to-air networks was advertising minutes per broadcast hour. When I stopped watching FTA about a decade ago that number was about 12 or 13. Youtube's must be 40+. I'm not brave enough to rawdog 60 minutes of YT and test it (and of course it wouldn't be uniform number anyway)

People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT's video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?

Why couldn't Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT's viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power...

A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.