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1. Surfers on piracy sites will never buy a porn site. They aren't part of the target market and most of these people are pretty advanced. So yes, piracy is big, but piracy also has existed for the last 10 years in a major major way, so when you compare 10 years ago to today, I think it would be hard pressed to say piracy plays a bigger role today than it did 10 years ago, although I don't have the data. If there's a will there is a way.
2. Big porn companies should sue piracy businesses. There is actual and real recourse (dollars and cents) when you know what you are doing. The reason most don't is because they don't register their copyrights properly. They don't do this because they are lazy and in my opinion, stupid. I have recently created threads on this topic (registration of copyrights), that got barely any views or replies - no one seemed to care which drives the point home.
3. If sales are shrinking as a whole, it's because companies aren't evolving to provide a value proposition to the customer that's better than a tube. Too many webmasters do the same thing they were doing even 3 years ago. Tube sites are great for quantity, they aren't great for quality. Making a tube and tossing up videos is easy. Making a quality product worth paying for is much more difficult.
To the people who "want to do something about it": It's simple, people and companies can still grow. Build a product that an audience wants, and you will see growth. Simple to read it, much harder to execute it. As we say in my office, water finds its level.
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