Ayn Rand made a good point here as long as you exclude the context of what she considered good and evil.

For context, Ayn Rand’s “good” includes unfettered capitalism, personal wealth, individualism, and oligarchy. Her “evil” includes industrial regulations, charity, social responsibility, and democracy. That certainly puts a different flavor on her statement, doesn’t it?

Private premium platform curated it’s programming to it’s audience’s interests.

CENSORSHIP! YOU’RE OBLIGATED TO PROMOTE MY INTERESTS AND IDEALS!

They’ll justify stuff like that by telling you they sold it to you at a discount price because the ads offset your costs. That’s what Amazon did with the cheap tablet I bought for my wife.

You don’t need to be allergic to advertisement to want avoid shit like this. The fucking audacity of companies these days. There is no place they won’t try to shove these damn things to the detriment of every product, service, and personal moment. If they could put screens under your eyelids you’d have to watch drug ads one blink at a time and your dreams would be sponsored by AT&T.

Global science community once again held back by shitty xenophobic governments.

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“America will not abide Nazism.”

“Sorry. I have to return some video tapes” gets said constantly by American Psycho fans.

There is a kernal of validity to your point, but let’s not pretend like those things are at all the same. The difference between copyright violation for personal use and copyright violation for commercialization is many orders of magnitude.

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“Months?” With any luck, it’ll be years.

Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of others that I would prefer and that I think would stand a better chance of winning… but I’m not in a position to be picky at this time.

Everyone’s gonna think the protagonist is named Link. What a terrible idea.