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🕑 Added 2024-05-31 08:19:51 +0000 UTC

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Max Brauer

There is no magic trick to prevent piracy at all. Every prevention method is costly and needs more effort. And the circumvention can be automated easily (e.g. a bot that scans all Google Drive links). If you really want to find out who's the culprit, you have to add an invisible watermark and digitally sign your releases for EACH receiver (there are tools but to setup this is quite expensive). If it happens that one of your copies got uploaded, you can check the signature and see who was the culprit. You can then ban this user and they will create a new account or you poison all the stuff they receive: Just use a shorter version (like the one on Pixiv) with a comment, that the full version is on Patreon. To setup this needs a good IT guy (nothing is for free) but this also wont prevent piracy: The whistleblower can create a new account each month and this can also be automated. Even if you setup stuff like Google Recaptcha, this wont help you. They are websites that offer to solve these automatically for very cheap. There is only one thing that can help you and that is the same thing that made Netflix popular - simplicity. For a few bucks you can see all the high quality content at one place. No long searching, no handling of thousand links, no buying each one, no passwords and no required downloads. (In terms of Netflix this changed with the rise of Prime, Disney+, Hulu, CrunchyRoll, Paramount+, Apple TV+, Curiosity, DAZN, ...) What I want to say is, don't make your content more difficult to read. Make it stupid easy. Your Google Drive Link with all the old works is already good. Just add a lower paying tier (supporter tier) that has only access to this and add the "new" content after some months to that and organize it well. After some months it is pirated anyway but this allows you to get one or two Dollars/Euros/Yuan/Yen... from good minded people. You cant stop piracy at all! You can only encourage people to access content directly from source.

Liang

添加密码就好

Petr Zuty

I don't know how to fight piracy. I can only hope that you will not stop making contributions (even if only shorter), because your work is really great and I think it is fair to pay for it. I have a few ideas of my own, but I can't tell stories very well and I can't draw very well, I admire that you can.

Doodler

Privacy is going to happen and there's nothing you can do to stop it. But it could be a good thing. I found out about you from ehentai. And I've been subscribed for a long tine. Just think of the leaks as free advertising. You really selling convenience. Because pirating is really annoying and takes time. People just pay for the convenience of having all there stuff here in one place. So ideally dont make your content more inconvenient to subscribers

Krenas

Id like to support you more, but I only come back once a while to check on new content. Can't really afford to purchase the membership every month. Id suggest you make some individual links to see who's the rat that posts the content elsewhere. Don't really know a way how to implement this but I sincerely hope your situation gets better, after all your content is amongst the top in this niche.

One Vanilla

only thing to do is support artist

Holly Welsh

Then all you do is screenshot the images and the problem is the same

One Vanilla

what if u make comic only available to seen but not downloadable until a certain time until next comic is release maybe Like they need a different password for every comic to be downloaded

One Vanilla

I still support u that why I still pay to see your content

Bubble

if making these comics feels like a job and you feeling like you're wasting your time for nothing cause of piracy, you definitely should stop doing them. But piracy will always be around, nothing you do will stop it, so you just gotta like get used to it or quit altogether.

feidreia

Sad you can’t send a personal link for each of us :/

YT_snow

It can't work and they can still post them on the forums.

YT_snow

It has indeed been happening continuously, but previously, it would at least take a week or two, or even several months, before it was pirated. However, this time it was posted the next day I publish the new work.

YT_snow

Thank you for your response. I actually agree with your thoughts very much. I'm currently in a very difficult phase in my creative process. Even though I've been continuously working these past few years, I feel like I haven't made any progress. It's as if I'm just creating a new story every month without any improvement in my artwork or models. On the other hand, I've also covered most of my favorite storylines. In the past, I used to have multiple ideas in my mind and would choose one to create a story each month. During the creation process, I felt like there were more ideas I wanted to execute but couldn't. However, now my creative state has shifted to spending a lot of time thinking about what to create. This change has resulted in a lack of ideas, making the creative process much more challenging due to this creative exhaustion. At the same time, years of creating have significantly diminished my interest in this work. In the past, I used to search almost daily for new articles or comics related to skinsuits and saved many of them for inspiration. Now, I hardly search anymore and have little time to pay attention to new content. This has certainly affected my creative abilities. Moreover, producing nearly 500 pages of content each month, including both long and short pieces, has consumed almost all of my time. This leaves me with no time to reflect and improve myself, which might be the core issue I'm facing now. Perhaps focusing less on the number of subscribers and more on personal growth and improvement would be a better approach. After all, I don't necessarily have to release nearly 400 pages of comics every month. So, from my perspective, the decline in the quality of my work is quite evident. In the past, I used to watch my work repeatedly during the creation process. However, now I rarely look back at my work after publishing it. This is a significant issue. Nonetheless, I might write some articles to discuss these issues with everyone in more detail. Regarding the issue of piracy, unauthorized reposting of my comics has always been a problem. I've tried my best to delay the time it takes for my work to be pirated, but this is the first time it has been stolen and posted the day after its release. The consequences of this are immeasurable, and it's extremely unfair to my paying supporters. Imagine a supporter who has paid for my work, only to find the entire comic pirated the next day. Before sponsoring me next month, they might think, "Since the comic will be out the next day anyway, why should I pay?" This is a common and understandable thought. If immediate piracy happens repeatedly, my number of supporters will likely decrease more and more, which is the main reason for my anxiety. Thank you very much for your feedback. I will take some time to reflect and think about my work, and then have a good discussion with everyone about it.

Holly Welsh

Don't get me wrong obviously piracy will be having a significant impact but piracy of YT_snows works have been happening for years, it's how I first discovered their work many years ago so I would be surprised if the drop in subscribers shown in that graph were solely the fault of piracy.

Rollingskates

While your criticism is valid, as you are entitled to your opinion, I can't help but feel you're vastly underestimating the impact piracy has on purely digital works. I do not believe that disgruntled or unsatisfied supporters leaving has even remotely as much impact as the supporters leaving who were just here for getting the works and realizing they can get them for free via piracy.

Rollingskates

I don't think relying on the goodwill of a bad actor to stop posting your content on e-hentai is the way to go here. I'd still recommend contacting e-hentai regarding this, and see if they have options to prevent the initial posting from occurring, so that other sites can't scan the pages before it gets removed.

Holly Welsh

First of all I want to start this by saying that I am a long time subscriber who has been enjoying your works for many years. With that in mind I don’t think it would be right of me to not offer up my feelings about the current situation. Obviously piracy will have some impact on your subscriber numbers, there will always be a certain group of people who will gladly view your content for free if it is available to them. However, from my perspective there could be something else at play that I feel as though I should talk about so that other people who may feel the same way feel like they can voice their opinions as well. To be completely honest I haven’t been enjoying your recent comics as much as I used to. My main enjoyment of this kind of comic comes from the skinsuits themselves and using them in interesting ways that other forms of gender change content do not enable. Personally I feel like your recent comics have not taken as much advantage of this as they could. A good example of this being your most recent comic Fantasy Workshop. I really enjoyed the start of revealing both characters wearing suits with men underneath and pulling off multiple layers of suits to reveal people underneath. Then turning Kathrine into a suit while she was wearing another one was really cool. Then we see my favourite scene, of the main character being surrounded by many skinsuits as he contemplates his next move. Maybe he will wear multiple at the same time, maybe re-inflate one of them to turn them into a mindless doll he can play with, or even combine different parts of the many suits to make the perfect body for himself. Instead the scene gets cut short by Judy and we’re pulled into some exposition about making a 4th wall breaking crossover brothel. For me personally this kind of ruined the comic as suddenly after an awesome set up the comic was no longer about the skinsuits but about setting up some other story. This also leads nicely to my other complaint, which is that I don’t really like the grand scale that many of your comics have taken on these days. I prefer the small scale stories of a single character or a small group of friends messing with people like the early parts of Little Sister and Breakout (Ex by Steponedesire is a great example too for those who have seen it). Honestly my favourite comics you’re released recently are Internet Celebrity and Merry Mysteries, mainly because it's so nice to see you doing something different and unusual with the concept of skinsuits (the pussy face from Judy also deserves a shout out) and they keep the scale of the story to just a handful of characters. For me I am lucky to be in the financial position to where I am happy to stay subscribed all the time so that when a comic comes along that I do like I don’t have to resub. For some people they won’t want to pay if they aren’t getting the content that they specifically enjoy and will sub 1 out of 4 months just so that they can get the stories they want. I really don’t want you to take this simply as me bashing you and I hope the length of my response helps to demonstrate how much I genuinely enjoy the work that you make and simply want to help you improve or try out new things. I also know that this could simply be my personal view and that I am in a minority here but I hope that this could act as a starting point for others who may have similar but differing opinions to speak up as well.

YT_snow

Yes, because someone actively uploads the content, there's nothing I can do to stop it. I never thought this would happen—that a sponsor would upload to these websites the day after I publish. But now it has happened, and if this continues, I will have no choice but to stop creating comics.

Rollingskates

Hmmm, in that case I wonder how they handle the artists on that list I linked. If they have a bot who flags the names of artists, for example "ytsnow" (or specific names like "moonlight") in the title of the uploaded work or tags, then it won't get uploaded, and instead be stuck in review. In that case, this could get prevented (a site I used to moderate on had this feature, for example). I don't know how well e-hentai's staff cooperates on this though, but I don't think it'd hurt to ask them.

YT_snow

The content on e-hentai is not difficult to take down with the DMCA notice, but as long as one person uploads content to e-hentai, within just a few hours, other pirated websites will immediately repost the content from e-hentai. Even with DMCA, these websites won't take down the content. The same principle applies to posting on forums.

Rollingskates

Piracy itself is very difficult to fight against, however, if this is affecting you to such a large degree, it may be prudent to contact the sites themselves, like e-hentai. After a bit of searching, I found that they have this page: https://forums.e-hentai.org/index.php?showtopic=19797 Other sites may have something similar. I'd recommend looking into getting added to such a page to at least somewhat prevent your work from getting uploaded to such sites, and if they do, and you're on such a list, the site's moderators can quickly remove it without much hassle on your end. If not that, authorizing others to strike down the content via DMCA takedown requests would be another route. The sites are just repositories, they will simply forward the takedown request to the uploader, who won't be able to fight it. How well this all works in practice, I cannot say, but I do hope this helps!