| Short of registering the PSDs to people and monitoring their usage, I'm not sure how you'd manage to gain control. Unfortunately, this places an onerous enforcement burden on you, at best, and at worst makes legitimate users jump through hoops, while the BIAB contingent probably still slips beyond enforcement effort.
It's an issue that concerns me on several levels, not just philosophically, because the open source files you provided are now an integral part of my creative projects. Without them, I would have shut down or passively retired my business because I had hit a brick wall of my own graphic limitations.
To some degree the consumer market would (I hope) regulate this market because the content pushers (as opposed to creators) aren't offering anything new above the free skins that you have made available inworld. So the scorched earth tactic, as you described it, seems to me to be a feasible solution.
Perhaps (and my own self-interest may be influencing my thoughts on this) stagger the release to also allow "trusted" content modders -- who have followed the spirit of your releases to your satistaction -- download access after your release and before final release to the public.
I don't think the git/ai distribution does much to address this issue. All it takes is one BIAB to get ahold of the files and you're back where you started. |