There is no universe where I'll pay to read digital comics, sell me physical media you dipshits.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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I'm cool with paying for actual files that I can store on my own machine. Fuck the DRM and subscriptions though. Also don't charge the same price as a physical book. I bought the entire Walking Dead comic series from Humble Bundle for $18 back in 2020. It was all the .cbz/.cbr files. I do like to support artists and that was a fair price. Very rarely are those requirements met for me though.
This seems like it would be very easy to circumvent
Yep. You’ll need 3 accounts, to decipher the canary watermark, and implement countermeasures.
Some teams already do.
But, they still use FashCorp.😒
Even the cheapest versions of entertainment were taken from the populace. Comics and movies started out as cheap entertainment for the masses. Just to spite all of those greedy corporations and tech overlords I am going to start becoming interested in, and having fun with, a stick and a rock. My stick and rock would never be offline or stop working. Of course, after submitting this comment the AI spy-bots will pick it up and inform their blood sac overlords and very soon all sticks and rocks will be bought up by big shareholders.
Well, the thing is even if you trace it back to an account, what do you do then? Only a single pirate with a bit of opsec knowledge needs to have an account with e.g. a stolen credit card or whatever, and then they can just leak everything with no consequences...
Still makes it effectively 1000x harder than just having the same account forever. Because now you need a new stolen credit card account for every new release.
booooo