@mint Also once upon a time there were furry porn artists trying DRM in their artwork to stop the darn pirates from sharing paid furry porn art from Patreon.

This would absolutely start shitshows, but also it was only the most mentally unstable and insane who would do this. I recall the artist formerly known as Blitzdrachin before her great big psychotic break that led to her completely nuking her NSFW art from the web (and failing because there's mirrors) was notorious for being mental and doing something like this. This made her the butt of jokes among furries and places like u18chan for doing stuff like this.

Even if she wasn't, I know she was "turn off that pesky adblock" levels of neurotic over this, and many furry porn artists were too. Before AI, it was those damn furries sharing the porn that would lead them to working at McDonalds (the one thing every furry porn artist fears).

https://kotaku.com/theres-a-website-dedicated-to-stealing-furry-porn-from-1821818309
https://www.wired.com/story/patreon-porn-piracy-yiffparty/