That’s messed up. I know he knew the risks but folks who benefited from the site could have kept things better considering someone could face legal charges. It was always a strange feeling seeing folks randomly drop these type of links in social media comic ads. Obviously companies wouldn’t be too keen on that.

And then sales on pay sites doubled shortly after? Like why tf were they pirating if they could afford it to begin with? Granted buying stories page by page instead of a solid copy is the biggest scam ever. Though why purchase scams when there are free legal sites out there too? But now that puts him in even more hot water for losses those companies could claim. And that all falls on one person when all these people hopping on page sales now were a part too.

I’ll be real I believe in people getting their dues for their art and that shouldn’t be taken away from them. But I also believe in many ways pirating can keep certain discontinued art alive and circulating. In addition it’s not like all these companies have given proper dues to artists fully either. There’s so many pros and cons to these things. If only there were a happy medium.