Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

Not arguing with that - just trying to be somewhat realistic.
I've been trying for years to educate the people in my small neck of the woods about this stuff - and even a small fetish community that used to be appreciative of producers' work, now doesn't give two shits about the producers. Even smoking fetish stuff is ending up on torrent sites, file-sharing sites and tubes...and even though I'm the "godfather" of my fetish (other peoples' word, not mine), the people who used to look up to me for guidance are now just laughing at me and my ethics. For the first time ever (and I'm talking years and years and years), my community hub isn't the highest ranked smoking fetish site in Alexa; a sharing site devoted to the smoking fetish is.
Of course we need to find a way to derail the train --- but it's not only left the station, it's halfway to its next destination. And just pretending that we can go on the way we have, without adjusting to the mindset of almost *all* the customers, is a one-way ticket in the wrong direction.
Wish that wasn't the case, but I've been wrestling with this in my own mind for a month now. And it's just the way it is. If, as "the authority figure" in my own small fetish community, I can't have any influence whatsoever on people's behavior --- it's going to take better minds than mine to figure out how to turn the train around, let alone derail it.