This is not the problem, the vast majority of users of such sites just download the game and are not interested in the developer and help in development. And not only that, just posting your project on a pirate forum is not a good idea, I don’t want to offend you, this is my personal opinion
Well you're wrong unfortunately because people who weren't going to buy it in the first place would have found it elsewhere, and I'm not speaking for other websites, I'm speaking for F95 only here. We at least attempt to get the artist SOME monetary gain out of it, also as I previously mentioned it helps people -discover- said artists, there would have been no gain even minimum if people didn't even know the artists existed so it's not exactly a loss in piracy if you think about it, four out of ten people then purchasing said product they found is a +4 in business sales no matter how you spin it, there are people who won't buy regardless and there's nothing we can do about them then there's people who will. You take the bad with the good, that's just business.