I bet AI is a factor. Their actions are too little, too late, but they’re probably worried the works they hold copyright for are being scraped through 3rd party access like these subreddits. It’s good content because it’s culturally relevant and it’s clean black and white line art (mostly) with witty dialog that’s easy to ocr. As a result they paywall everything
We all get fucked over because ai bros are unethical shitheads and they’re fighting against “we own a license to some work we didn’t create” bros who will milk a work in perpetuity while the creator gets pennies (if anything). 30 year old comics should be free at this point and copyright is fucking stupid. The AI bros will just use libgen and download the books without seeding, far more efficient than scraping a subreddit and higher definition.
I bet AI is a factor. Their actions are too little, too late, but they’re probably worried the works they hold copyright for are being scraped through 3rd party access like these subreddits. It’s good content because it’s culturally relevant and it’s clean black and white line art (mostly) with witty dialog that’s easy to ocr. As a result they paywall everything
We all get fucked over because ai bros are unethical shitheads and they’re fighting against “we own a license to some work we didn’t create” bros who will milk a work in perpetuity while the creator gets pennies (if anything). 30 year old comics should be free at this point and copyright is fucking stupid. The AI bros will just use libgen and download the books without seeding, far more efficient than scraping a subreddit and higher definition.