Yeah, that's kind of a weird take. Wanting to get out from under German domination of the EU was even one of the stated rationales
for Brexit.
I mean, heaven forbid
Lou Gagliardi and his idiot friends have a weird take, be grossly misinformed, and say something stupid. But this one is particularly bizarre.
Like 0 1 said, they're paying for the "right" to use a character. You don't necessarily get hi-res pictures of the character (although most artists are nice, and throw in a "free" reference sheet along with your adoptable), but you do get the "right"
to pay to commission hi-res pictures of that character.
It's exactly as retarded as it sounds. In theory, it's like buying the ownership rights to a copyrighted character. Except in this case, the character isn't a popular one (just a random doodle of a sparklefox or whatever), there is no formal, legal transfer of ownership rights, and whatever "copyright" the character you bought might have had in the first place is completely unenforceable anyway.
(well, mostly unenforceable. If furries find out you're "stealing" adoptables and commissioning - or worse, DRAWING - art of characters you don't "own", they'll try to get you blacklisted from commisisoners, ERP servers, and whatever other microcommunities furries congregate in. However, because the furry fandom is so massive, and most characters look the same anyway (who the fuck is going to know your black-and-pink scene hair wolf fursona wasn't invented by you?), the adoptable market typically operates on the honor system. Piracy usually only generates drama when furs try to "steal" adoptables from a popular closed species - if you want to learn about THAT bullshit, check out the
Closed Species thread here on KF.