I find some of the aspects bb mentioned a little bit more scary than the whole debate cycling this piracy thing. I work in pentesting and it is quite often, since the entire spectrum of security issues around IOT devices arose that I have come in touch with many extremely wealthy private(!) customers demanding my services. I am not 100% sure if BB is legit bit I can certainly Imagine that something like this dude describes is really happening.I have witnessed richkids that spend amounts of money on stupid stuff evvery sane person would loose his sleep over for moths. The entire debate, if something, that is on the web should be for free or not seems to me like some form of proxy war between the rich and the rest of us. At the current time, artists are somewhat caught inbetween these two fractions. I'm in to support *talented* artists and i am far from being a communist but to hell with this elitosphere. To my mind the elites with very few exceptions are mostly responsible for the tremendous financial disparity between them and us, just by creating or lobbying for a system that deliberately exploits the working man pouring more and more money into the pockets of the rich. No wonder, that we, the working class cannot afford to share some of our sour earned money with creators we like. This is where i see the major problem, not the artist wanting to make money itself, but moreso in the elitism that is building up and is slowly affecting the web. THink about it: Outside the web, the elite has long come for our money treating us like domestic livestock to milk as they please. What if the elite comes into the web. Let that sink in for a moment.