I don't know, maybe I am naive but I don't think the author feels any better if illegal sites wait or not. They don't want their stories here.
I understand the outrage but at the same time it looks like: 'we are stealing but we are not stealing it in the same day'. I doubt the author feels any better that the work gets uploaded a week after.
I don't know but I think the outrage over stealing the work now or later is a bit pointless. Either you support the author -- and they are very clear they do not want their work here or don't do it half way ( thinking that you are doing less harm by waiting a week).
I don't know but just my impression, that pretending that stealing one week later in any way more 'moral'. It is not. I agree that it may be less shameless but that is another point.
I am pretty sure, really really confident that if went to ask the author this question you would be greeted with the biggest put down you ever heard. The point is that the author 'prefer' that it doesn't get uploaded in here. Period. I understand that people want to 'feel' like they are doing a courtesy so they feel less shitty mooching a work they should be paying for but this is really more for YOURS, OURS benefit, so we pat ourselves in the back saying we are mindful of the author's.
A courtesy means that you are doing something good or appreciative towards someone and if it is really a courtesy, the person would thank you for. The biggest reality check on this is easy to do: go to the author if you dare and really ask the question you just posted to me. It's actually quite offensive to the author that moochers think they are deserving of consideration because they 'let her' make a bit of money before they steal their work.
Listen people, I am a moocher too but there is no honor among thieves like you are all trying to imply. Just like people keeps saying that they can't afford to pay and that's why they read the work in illegal sites. That in no way mitigate the mooching. Neither the 'courtesy' of waiting days. Even more because the gross, majority of people reading manage is literally used to wait months for illegal works ... the myth that a large number of people will run and buy it is not true. One or two cases do not make for the majority that just waits like they wait for every other story they won't be paying for because they know that eventually they will get it illegally.
I get it the 'feel good' or 'trying not to feel too guilty' feeling we are all trying to put on here but this is not even a hard question to answer: what do you really think the author would tell you if you asked her what she prefer between stealing her work on the same day or if you give her the 'courtesy' of a delay? She would probably be even more offended that you are the one deciding on letting her make some money for some days as courtesy or charity... because we are moocher but we are decent like that, right?
I think it does make a difference though. There are many mangas that aren't free but if you wait, the chapters slowly becomes free until.the whole thing is free. They do that on Tapas for example.
Also on Webtoon, if you pay, you can see from.1 to 3 episode ahead. And a lot of people do pay, even though they can wait and get it for free on the official site.
So yeah, the wait does help. It doesn't change the fact we are reading this on an illegal site, but it is a way of doing things that lessen the damage.
Yes, there is definitely a bigger picture in here but it's not me who is missing it.
I'm sorry but again, your whole attitude of patting yourself in the back for common decency for letting the author make a 'lot of money' in a week when she will lose a lot more indefinitely every time a reader finds her work in here at any time is beyond pale.
The funny think is that while you double down on the defense that what you are doing is common decency and even a 'favor' to the author you are admitting this is about you -- your need to give yourself some credit and not at all about the worry with the author.
Look at what you are saying. You are literally saying that you or the 'common decency' of mooches is the decider of how long or how enough money the author can make out of their work. Yes, I'm sure the author can't deny how much money she made in a week, how lucky for her that moochers like you give her this allowance.
Do you know what is common decency? Not upload it in here and not read it. More decency? not patronize the site. We are not decent, not you who waits a week and puts the line where the author made enough money neither anyone else.
Let's stop being hypocrites. Even more offensive when we give ourselves the role of decent people who let the author eat for a week before we stole her food. That's all I am saying. Even if it took a year for her work to be uploaded, it is still a loss because a work doesn't get a life spam. New readers will come and they will find her work for free.
This whole argument would be much more honest if we admitted and framed the whole outrage solely on the point it brings more attention to mangago and we all may lose our trash bin of food. That's it. That's the hook for waiting. Not because we are decent to give an week allowance for the author on her own work. Let's not be hypocrites.
Anyway, I doubt you can see any other picture than the one you painted yourself in as the 'common decency' one so please go get outraged some more and defend the author's right to make money for a week. Then pat yourself on the back some more. You are doing great!

To those complaining about the early updates :
You are right, it's not a good thing and it has to.stop. BUT it doesn't mean the uploader knows that. They probably dont realize its better to wait and they just want to.share. It's a good thing to warn them, but no need to be aggressive towards someome who is trying to do something good.