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>And yes, your logic is stupid because you are threatening not to port FREE stuff because of piracy as if free stuff will be very interesting to pirates.


Okay, let's separate a few things:

I don't post to GuroChan, not so much because of piracy, but because of pirates. Included in "pirates" are the people who ask other people to break paywalls, and the people who break those paywalls. I don't want to give those people anything. (If this means denying my work to innocent people, that's too bad.) Also, if I were to post something on GuroChan and say, "hey, please don't spread this around", there's no way I could trust them. You say on one hand that you'd respect the wishes of a "friend", but on the other you say you'd take ownership of someone's art if it seemed like they went away. I could not rely on someone like you to respect anything.

I don't take commissions because of piracy, and the fact that at any point some asshole who decides they didn't like how I set up my Patreon could just decide to spam my work everywhere just out of spite. And if I can't make money from a Patreon, what's the point?

The work on my hard drive is neither free nor for sale. It just exists. No matter how I might send it out, it's not worth it to me, and it's because of elements like you in the community. If you don't care, that's fine.

>Why do you think I am that much interested in your art in the first place if I never even seen it and have no clue what it is?


It's not so much that I think you'd care - although you will never know - but some people may think their little ideologies don't bother anyone or have any effect. I'm saying that they do. In at least one case (mine), people's attitudes regarding copyright and piracy have resulted in an artist not posting work to GuroChan. Are there others who feel like me? Maybe, maybe not. But if you're content that you've got enough material to look at and you don't need more, then you don't have anything to argue about, do you?