I would say that it was a bastion of pirated art distribution, since most of the time art was posted without permission. That's quite a different thing than art being freely distributed, since that phrase suggests that it was done with the artists' knowledge or permission.
I would say that it was a bastion of pirated art distribution, since most of the time art was posted without permission. That's quite a different thing than art being freely distributed, since that phrase suggests that it was done with the artists' knowledge or permission.