>>532
also BS.
If in this hypothetical scenario of unbreakable paywalls and rigorously enforced copyright actually were free content, then nothing but samples and other forms of promotional material would publicly exist.

>>531
>Assuming that you are right and this will make more artists to produce stuff, what benefit it has to people who are not willing to pay?

None.
Why should an artist want to bring benefit to people who are not willing to return the favor?
Would YOU?

>>530
>Onix is right the art behind the paywall does not exist

Another wrong assumption.
For Pirates, the web experience ends right in front of a paywall. Like an unbreakable barrier. For people that go beyond this paywall, there exists actually stuff. Imagine that. Or would you say that just because Netflix has a paywall there are no series behind that?

I do agree on the money-milking scheme part, but you have to consider that this is the most popular minority that gets greedy and can get away with it because they are big and successful enough.
This milking-model is not the best choice for small to medium sized creators, but sadly gets copied by them because they give into the illusion that if they behave like the big ones, they eventually become as successful as them.
Which is wrong.

But after all,
I don't think that there is enough common ground for discussion between hardline-pirates and hardline-paywallers.
It is not about getting the best experience for everyone or solving a problem,
it's only about being right.
Counterproductive.
Currently, the pirates have the high ground, because there is nothing artists can do to 100% prevent theft or enforce payment.
Therefore the pirates have the last lough.

The only thing that artists really can do is to focus on the 1-10% of the entire audience, because this is the share that is willing to support in a meaningful way.
This also means to ignore piracy and just let it happen, while knowing that through piracy there are no real customers lost.
Trying to defend your stuff against pirates only lowers the customer experience because they have to jump through all the guarding hoops to get their product.
Furthermore, putting all the protection in place sucks up time that is better spend delivering more stuff.

I'm convinced, that online piracy will die off some day, just like bank robbery (almost) did but the mechanism to achieve that is not yet in place.

One has to consider, that the collective of REAL pirates (the ones that actually have the know-how to commit the theft) is waaaay smaller than all the screeching wannabes that like, tout and boast about the great piracy culture.

Yiff.party *was* a good example for that:
Very few were able/willing to erect a site dedicated to art-theft.
Very few were able/willing to provide content to that site.
The Many that visited that site exploited the few, constantly begging and nagging.
The few got fed up.
Site is dead.
the end.