You're still effing WRONG. This is not a site focused on piracy.
Read the above. Not a pirate forum. If it openly advertised as such, it would have been dead long ago. It actually only takes ONE legal order from ONE major developer, or a small one with the cash to do so, like fx Wild Life or SummertimeSaga.
There's multiple problems with that statement. Without knowing where the forum is based there is no way to know whether the site owners could be prosecuted for anything.
As well, porn is the least likely art form to receive public protection. Just look at the proliferation of pirated porn videos and forums that openly have people sharing pirated porn content. Sure, occasionally one "might" get taken down, but more often than not it's taken down for child pornography and not because it was soliciting pirated porn content.
Japan likely has the strongest laws regarding piracy and the government there is actually willing to prosecute cases involving digital piracy, but even there they can't do anything about the vast majority of piracy sites because, back to the first point, most piracy sites aren't located in Japan.
Again, many users of this forum have a lot of respect for developers of games. The developers who are viewed as more respectable than others will in turn get more respect from users who pay for their content.
Hence, we see that users here that pay to sub to The Architect's Patreon pay their respects to him by not leaking his Patreon locked content. That's a personal decision by those users and has absolutely nothing to do with the site's policies. Anyone is free to upload anything released on The Architect's Patreon regardless of whether The Architects wants it released here or not. However,
users have thus far chosen not to do so out of respect.
Even pirates can sometimes respect an IP holder enough to not want to release protected content on a pirate site.
If someone can afford to subscribe or donate to The Architect, I would certainly urge them to, they are certainly deserving. But I also understand that not everyone can donate or subscribe to every developer they want. If I did that, for example, I'd be spending 1000-2000 USD a month in subscriptions. And I certainly can't afford that. So I have to pick and choose and sometimes I'll rotate subs and sometimes I can't subscribe to a developer that I wish I could subscribe to.
However, if that developer's game goes on sale on Steam, I'll immediately buy it once I can fit it into my budget (at most it'll take a month or two). And that goes for every single developer that I like. That I can easily afford, unlike multiple subscriptions to Patreon.
