Before now I had assumed that having a p2p board and just being a chan in general meant the community here had given its implicit blessing to piracy. When scrolling past the rare discussion on the topic both sides seemed to be taking very extreme stances on what I considered largely a non-issue. I haven't really done my due diligence to read every post in here but I thought I'd lay out a couple of thoughts anyway.

People with disposable income to spare will share that income with content creators who create content they enjoy. People without, wont. Pirates haven't done anything to "deserve" access to content, but having that access also doesn't indicate enormous amounts of potential lost revenue. Some people absolutely would pay for content they wouldn't otherwise if it had been released from behind a paywall, and their are absolutely some paying customers that have only found artists through pirated content.

It's ridiculous for people to act like their entitled to someone else's paywalled work, but I feel its also silly to get up in arms if it does get shared.

On a different note, it seems silly to remove content, once its out its out and removing it just makes it a pain to find again. Several times recently I've tried to find more work from a artist only to find that they've scoured their pixiv completely. I haven't really thought about this point as much, and am mostly just airing a tangentially related frustration.