>>9684
First keep in mind that it is not about you making a living wage, it is about what you can offer to pirates to stop pirating your work. Because we are not just pirating it, as you may believe, we reject your right to have control over that work entirely. To be a pirate you need to acknowledge your ownership and I do not acknowledge it so I am not a pirate.

But this is easy to solve by using original copyright laws, that give you monopoly and right to control its distribution for a limited amount for time as compensation for your work and then you lose all rights to your work giving it to public.
I believe it could even work today to some extent if we reduce that time to 1 year or maybe even less because of how fast everything is going in the modern world.

You draw a picture and nobody is pirating it if you agree to upload it to public at max 1 year later. You will have plenty of time to sell it to those who are inpatient. If you failed to sell it in 1 year probably you wont sell it anymore and those who refused to buy it in 1 year probably will never change their mind.
so win-win situation
In fact it is nothing new. This is why copyright and patents laws were invented in the first place. Not to allow you to make money but to make you make more public content.

Of course some pirates will still break those rules, but they will not be so well received as now when they are treated as heroes. People will rather just wait 1 year to get that content than go in the fight with artist. You will be compensated for not pirating and that is good incentive. people who download pirated content will tell to the pirates that "please don't do that because we rather want to get this content later than make artist stop producing it entirely"
It will be way better relationship where everyone knows that you will get it some time later if you do not pay.

I see some artists are voluntarily adopting that principle and it seems to work well to some extent.
Probably this can even be negotiated on the individual basis. Just tell your fans not to distribute your stuff and in exchange you will post it all yourself some time later for free.