>>9138
Your psychology skills are very poor if you think like that. You do not understand the situation properly.


Piracy is not just some kind of theft to save money, this is kind of the game. where the stuff you get is achievement and goal of that game.

Do you think that even average Joe will spend weeks just to save some 5$ because he is so stingy beyond any reason?
No, this is not how it works yes I can pay for the works I like but I will not pay in principle because buying spoils that game My HDD like HDD of any other pirate is stuffed with multiple terabytes of content I never even seen and probably forgot to have. Just that when someone posts some site rip I say "yeah great one more thing to add t my collection" take it put it my HDD and either forget or just click through it spending 1 second on each picture.
Sharing something you got is also part of that game.

So you are dealing not with merely some financial stuff, but with a group of people who get more pleasure from the process of pirating way more than from the content they pirate. Some people go as far as even risk their carriers or businesses just for the thrill.


Do you understand that when you somehow prevent someone from getting something you become just the game boss who has to be defeated?
If you want to stop piracy you need to change that situation. instead of being enemy of your fans you should become their friend you have to remove incentives of that game.

1. yes that is totally pragmatic because many people will not be willing to beg for free access and after you gave them free access they will feel very uncomfortable to stab you to the back and hurt you in exchange to you being nice to them. Yes, some may act like assholes but unlike usual prates, they will not receive support from the community with whom they share their loot. Even if that happens it is not that big deal because it will work as an advertisement. People will still come for new content and get it properly.

Speaking about me I will never share content I got from some artist for free unless I know that wahst I do will help his business and this is not a hypothetical issue I have some relationship with commercial content creators. but if I manage to obtain it in another way like by hacking their paywall (or god forbid he forces me to pay) everything will get in public the same day and on the multiple forums at the same time.

Considering the hassle of talking with every cheapskate fan who is not willing to pay that is not a problem for the niche content where you have very few fans anyway. You said yourself you enjoy feedback so make that person give you that feedback you want. Eventually, you can even transform that guy into paying customer because he will feel bad not giving anything in return.

Finally, I do not need any excuses why they are not paying even if someone comes to me and says "Your art sucks you are a piece of shit I just want everything for free" I will say "fine here it is all for you maybe you will change your opinion when you see it". Conscience will eat that person alive after all that


3. there is no way to collect everything in one place because new stuff is appearing regularly. so if you post different series on the different forums you need to track all those forums at once, and if you pay you get everything conveniently in one place.
also, there is no big incentive in collecting stuff to one place for anyone you will not get much praise for that as people who are really interested will get it from the source.
It is extremely uncommon to see such collections unless the artist decides to quit, and then everyone is trying to recover everything asking if someone saved something.

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I already provided an example of how donations can provide you more than paywalled content.

and speaking about morality I also have a question for you:


If you have one artist who is giving everything for free and asking for donations while another artist is paywalling their content.
And now we have a customer who gives nothing to the artist who does not use paywalls even if he is asking for reasonable compensation for his work, but he properly pays to the artist who is hiding his content behind a paywall.

Don't you see some moral problems here? Isn't this behavior giving incentive for all artist to hide their content behind a paywall, because nice people are being punished?
Imagine if you have one shop where you can freely take the product and just leave money in the box and another shop where everything is heavily guarded by armed thugs.
Does that give you moral right to steal from the shop which trusts you?
And the even worse, if you steal from the shop with no guards but them properly pay in the shop where stuff is protected.