Re: Is hentai dying/dead?
I admit this freely right now, I hardly ever pay for the stuff. I don't normally have the cash to spend on cheap subscriptions to western paysites, let alone import stuff.
Maybe I'm a bit of a drain that way. Normally I wait for hentai animations to get subbed and I usually know where to look to find and acquire them. Same for doujins, my favorite selection of artists usually have dedicated scanlator fanbases. For games I admit I don't have a variety, I mostly look out for new TDCG mods(they still get made), Illusion games, and the occasional things like koooonsoft, jsk, and newly released/translated visual novels.
To be honest, I'm not really a fan of most western sites. Yes I 'pirate' porn, but even then it's...to best describe it, while I don't know a LOT about artists, the only sites I usually ever actively look for leaks on are Jiggly Girls and TNA. I love their art style. Yiu ever tried to find rips of HK's pixxx sites? Normally I don't even have the gumptiob to spend time looking for free sources of their stuff because their works just look so awful in my opinion.
Now I'm not sure about TNA's release schedule, but I've long since decided to never sub for JG because of that. Reiq has a schedule of outputting one image set a week, with the images being variations. Usually, the same girl drawn the same exact way but with some cum on her and the guy ejaculating. Small differences. And I decided that paying the full monthly aubscription wasn't worth getting one small image set a week, even if I did love that guy's artwork.
For other sites that do comics like TNA, I've thought about doing it if I ever had the money. But I still felt that in the long run it might not be qorth it, because I imagined paying thirty bucks or whatever a month while the lead artist of a given site outputs a single page every other day or week. For ones like TNA I thought and sometimes still think that it might be worth it, but for many whose adtstyle I'm not very fond of, not so much.
One thing that's akways annoyed me with western artists though is the general attitude. Regardless what fair use laws say, a person that puts up a porn image of Bayonetta on their paysite is not nearly as much a copyright holder as the original primary holder. Many threaten with DMCAs, and many public aites bow down to those, but I sometimes that the western drawn porn industry in some areas is moving towards being like the movie industry: complaining about EVERY potential loss in money when they're well off enough already. I don't say that for everyone, but I at least believe that sites like HentaiKey and JG and TNA are doing rather well for themselves. Could be wrong.