First, thanks for your point of view. I realize that piracy is a nuanced topic with several angles. I would ask that we keep the focus of this thread to piracy prevention techniques and awareness. Perhaps there is another thread, or one could be created, where the philosophical, ethical, and hypothetical discussions would be more appropriate?
You made the thread topic about 'Creators' and 'Piracy.' I don't believe you can have a discussion about those subjects with the creators themselves, and potentially the pirates as well, without discussing the philosophical, ethical, and hypothetical parts of it all. Those things are all pretty well integrated.
For starters, piracy prevention. One of the main prevention techniques the film industry employs IS appealing to the ethical side of people. They put in those end credits now stating how many people that film employed, and to please support their continued welfare. There's short previews the theaters themselves show before the movie stating "You wouldn't steal from a cop, you wouldn't steal from your neighbor, you wouldn't... Well, piracy is stealing too."
My advice is to adjust your comfort level with the subject of piracy because it has been around long before you came into the industry and it will be here long after you've quit and NOTHING short of a world-wide E.M.P.(Electromagnetic Pulse) will stop it from happening!
In your first post you took a philosophical viewpoint that models should just adjust their comfort level with it, since it's the fundamental nature of the current reality. Others don't agree with that view by your very own statement of having seen all the threats on your twitter feed about it, and judging by the replies in this thread.
Ethics, philosophy, piracy prevention. They go hand in hand. It's kind of difficult to make any post without acknowledging some aspect of those things.
Plus, Thread Drift, It happens in every thread that goes over 20 replies. Forum Law #24. Not much anyone can do to stop it other than admins closing the thread.