I also loved project hail mary. Just saw the film adaption recently, and while it is certainly impressive in some sense and has some strengths of its own, it generally skips most of what i enjoyed about the book which was a shame and i honestly think it must be superconfusing to watch if you have never read the book. The way it is is written it was always going to be tricky to turn into a movie but i was still disappointed

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I could try, but they are operated by twitch so i somehow doubt they will do that?

Ive tried that, but have so far been unable to find a number that has not previously been used for twitch and after a few failed attempts, twitch stops sending out codes.

Ive also experimented with scraping but i am unable to form the request in a way that does not yield 403 for this and howlongtobeat for instance. I did get responses from rawg.io but while it seemed they have a lot of games, stuff like playtime didnt seem too reliable to me (europa univeralis 4 being sub 10hr for example… :p) and ive also yet to find a way to generate all urls to go through all their game pages (urls contain game name, not incremental ids).

I recently finished zelda twilight princess (gamecube version). Not really a patient gaming situation, i did get it on launch for the wii as the impatient gamer i was back in 2006. But it was a fun replay, but it is honestly all too easy. Im not one for very difficult battle where i die over and over again before i am able to defeat the boss, but some more puzzle-like challenges to the battles would be nice.

Ive since started luigis mansion - never played that one for some reason. Only about 1hr in, but it is fun enough :)

Lol not very imaginative then i suppose? I want to make a fun hobby project for myself and a niche audience. Thats how i can have this idea. And i am simply gauging if this approach could be used without getting fucked with fines and legal issues.

It would be downloadable because im not sure how i would serve it for playback without it also being possible to download. There would be no big “download the song here” button. The goal is not to share song files but to discuss songs i like and allow readers to play along (whole song, parts of song, whatever suits the blog post). Side effect of that is that it would be downloadable.

If you mean that “facilitation of piracy” is anything where someone would be able to obtain an illegal copy of the song then yea sure, but in that case youtube is already the biggest facilitator of piracy there is because it is trivial to download any song from there.

Yea im leaning towards embedding it externally instead - too many uncertainties. Ill see what i can find that could fill the same role i had envisioned :)

That was pretty cool!

Either they tell you very sternly to stop, and you do. If not, they may take action, either against you or your host.

This is mostly what i am hoping will happen - that the first step is always going to give me a chance to comply with a request to remove it.

I mean, if you want to facilitate piracy, that’s one thing, but don’t consult social media about it — consult a lawyer instead.

On the contrary, it is not to facilitate piracy (as in the goal is not to serve files for illegal download), it will include links to legal avenues of purchase and download. Its just that i am thinking about a particular style of embedding this within a blog post that would require me to host the file on my own server - and then that song would be downloadable for anyone who want to (even though i have no explicit “download button”).

Cheers - it is the “practical answer” that i hope will be the case, ie being able to comply with a request to take it down. I am fine with complying with this. In most cases it will be single songs from some artist i enjoy listening to with links to their pages on bandcamp or qobuz or the like where any reader could purchase the full album drm free.

My impression was that most countries have been forced to implement similar dmca laws (as per corey doctorow’s account at least)? I thought that most of these things were enforceable cross-border

However, what I would do is go ahead and then wait for the DMCA request. I think you could then decide what action to take going forward.

Id be fine taking stuff down if there was a request, but id then want to only take down whatever song/songs triggered the request. Just dont wanna be on the hook for a lot of fines before i had the chance to respond.

You could provide links to YouTube, SoundCloud, Qobuz and loads more like ReverbNation (mainly for new/upcoming artists), with links to online tools for downloading etc.

The idea is to make it pretty integrated and keep things inside the blog post with a simple player widget. And im not a big fan of spotify and youtube etc so would want to avoid linking to them if possible. I intend to include links for legal purchase and downloads of the song (+ full album and any other thing from the same artist/band, on qobuz or bandcamp and similar sites that sell drm-free music).