Yes charging money does incentivize pirating but it’s been a long time since I’ve pirated because it became easy to pay for digital content. Even with the threat of piracy looming many podcasts do well financially behind a fiat paywall.

k00b

bitcoin

Is “Value for Value” fatally flawed?

andyflattery

Part of the value for value model involves giving the content away for free. This may in part come from the networking affect allowed by free content dissemination.

When putting a price on the episode you know keep anyone only willing to pay x-y sats for the content out of your audience, or push them to "pirate" your content.