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Well I read through it (but twitter so complicated to read conversation!! xD) And even though I don't understand all that is going on as I don't follow the TL scene as much, I know this: Everything can be done for free and I as someone who uses lot of free things try to also offer what little I do for free (now this has nothing to do with VNs or anime in my case). So I would agree there with Aaeru. However even though everything can be done for free, in this world there are still things that are not free and to get those you also need to get paid for stuff you could potentially do for free. You need money to buy food because it is not free, you need money to even pay for clean air as not even that is free anymore here. And in that I have to agree with Kouryuu, he just wants to live off doing translation and even though he could do it for free, nobody is going to give him food for free, give him place to live for free. However I do not agree with him going against the free competition. He can do TL for money, but he has no right to tell people to stop doing it for free. If I volunteer to go helping old people for free, I don't expect people that work in the care system to get mad because they get paid for it. In order to survive in this world, you need to find a nice balance, do as many things for free because you can also use other people's work for free. But you still need something to buy the things that are not free. As I already mentioned I work on the internet in book selling system - and people pay us for books they can torrent or download for free on various sites - because it is a digital copy of the book, it doesn't cost anything to give it to them. However I have this as my job and get paid for it - that way I can afford to live. They pay for the convenience to have the books on one place, just like on steam. And even though they can get it free and I could be giving it for free to people, I cannot expect anyone to give me free food and water and roof to live under. Because nobody will. So you are both right and wrong. You are similar, but each of you charges people for something else. He charges people for his translation works and then maybe does lot of things for free. You Aaeru charge nothing for your TL work, but surely you still do something to earn money, you could do it for free but you can't because that way you couldn't afford to live. I don't know what your source of income is but whether it is manual work or some data entry work or work in McDonald's or you have a business, you need to get paid for it. That way you have way to live and you can do free stuff for the rest of the day So you just need to understand each other, he needs to understand that you can do free stuff he does for money (and he has no right to stop you). And you need to understand that just like you do your paid job, he needs one too to live. He does free stuff in different place. Its not like he is a millionaire, I don't like those because those just have money sitting or account and still do charge for their work (and sometimes its not even their work). If I could get everything for free, I wouldn't charge anything for what I do. But some people have more then they can use (and they even use much more then they need). After I pay my life expenses I have like 100$ a month left, I do with that because there is lot of free stuff on the internet, sadly I can't afford a plane to places I want to visit like Japan. But I rather do some stuff for free and not visit Japan, than if I would get paid for everything and have all money for myself - sadly many people go only for money and their own happiness and that needs to be fixed. For example politicians in this country take too much money and their work is not even worth it. If they just took what normal person needs, we wouldn't have to pay for state services. Few years ago we still didn't have to pay for medical care, doctor visits etc. Now we do have to pay. And I think in this case it is even worse in America (with health care). And because America has so big influence over the economy, I don't think this copyright bullshit can change, because it all originated there. Hard to say if communism with socialistic economy really worked as it was intended to work (as the original author explained in the book), it could really be a good political system with good economy, however it is only a theory and nowhere in the world it ended up working. Because there are always greedy people and thus in theory good communism/socialism turned into totalitarianism and other shit. (and even so many older people here always remember how everything was free... yeah too bad it wasn't the only thing, too bad it brought very big disadvantages with it as well, because of bad evil people) Now don't take me like some socialist communism fan, just saying that if it work as wrote on paper, it could be good, just like would be democracy and capitalism on paper - they sound good but in reality they are shit, I don't prefer any of the systems, neither of them works on this planet. However it is not really problem of the systems but a problem of the people and there will always be bad people. Anyway neither Aaeru or Kouryuu are one of those, you just do things differently, get paid for something else. So you should not argue and just accept each other and live happily as you can in this corrupted and rotten society.