RawAlex

This has been mentioned on a couple of other threads, but I sort of think it needs it's own thread.

On one side, you have the content producing and distribution side of the business (studios, paysites, production companies, and all the affiliates and sales people who are part of the gravy train of selling porn). Call them "the producers:

On the other side, you have the companies such as AFF, SexSearch, etc (and their supporters such as Drinkinghardest with his P2P spam campaigns). Call them "the Willing"

The issue: The Willing have no problem sourcing their traffic from any source, marginal or not. They have no issue getting traffic from sites that steal content from The Producers, from sites like PirateBay, Fusker-style hot linkers, content redistributors, and so on. They are more than willing to use questionable sources (such as Zango and other even less savory toolbar marketing systems) to obtain traffic. They allow and encourage spammers, jammers, and pretty much every other questionable technique to get traffic - and they reward those people handsomely for doing the dirty work.

The Producers see that The Willing are making more and more money off of stealing their content. The levels of blatant content theft and public support by The Willing is certainly starting to get some of The Producers up in arms.

Where do you see this all going?