Naver Webtoon, for one, has rolled out an in-house tool named Toon Radar that embeds invisible watermarks in each chapter. When a pirated copy turns up online, the watermark allows the company to trace it back to the specific account that downloaded it.
There is no universe where I’ll pay to read digital comics, sell me physical media you dipshits.
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.