Valve is not publicly owned, I don't think you can equate commerce to Capitalism.

$680 CAD is quite steep a price.

Asks to be installed as root, nah

3?? Lol, I only watch Hockey and look at this shit. I have to pay $250 CAD just to get NHL while I don't give no fuck about anything else. Fuck that. I used to pay for NHLTV but now they don't sell it in Canada anymore. So fuck'em.

Oh, forgot, they also have blackouts on certain games/regions.

320 is noticeably better with not much of a size bump. FLAC for archiving.

If you wanna give your money to something useful, give it to local journalists that do investigative journalism.

Torrent

Nice and all but comments is what's important on Reddit not the posts themselves.

The problem is that Reddit as it is now is a treasure trove of good comments by some very intelligent and knowledgeable people. You can find a good answers to most of questions by adding Reddit to the search on Google.