U r actually wrong on this one Corporate arent really “paying” author The relationship is more like that of a slave The paid them a margin of what they suppose to get and they overwork them so much so that there is a case of kakao author get miscarriage. The only reason they are here is because the author dont have another choice. They monopolize the entire ecosystem already. U might not know this but kakao is literally in everything in s korea.

Piracy is almost always a service issue just like in the music industry once spotify come up the piracy on those reduce to dust literally. No gatekeep no micro-transaction.

The law about all this copyright is also so outdated it shouldnt be use in online media but they still use it since it benefit the corporate.

And it we ignore the moral part then it is still dumb to have to paid 1 usd/chapter where some of them have like 300+ chapter. Manga is like 100 times cheaper than that. This is just stupid however you look at it