Morkonan,  We've obviously taken some of the same marketing and business courses.  I've been snooping around the pirate's butts long enough to understand (but not like) their attitudes.  A niche market like ours could easily die because of theft and I find that intolerable.  I'm hoping that engaging them in conversations will turn a few from the dark side and make them paying customers.  There has yet to be a software or hardware solution that's lasted more than a few minutes under pressure from the cracker/hackers so that method is a waste of time.  The vendors could also be doing a lot more issuing of takedown notices in the torrent sites.  This is the most popular distribution method and only Renderotica issues DMCA complaints.  There's one main torrent site for Poser/Daz stuff and I never see their stuff there.
     The vendors themselves could also take a little time to engage the pirates in the sharing forums.  If they saw that the content artists are just regular folks trying to make a few lousy bucks doing something they are passionate about, I'm certain it would turn a few.  I confess to having been a serious (and damned proud of it!) pirate for many decades but was turned by gaming.  I loved the Half Life universe and began buying the games and add-ons to support it.  It felt so good that when I left games for Poser, I continued supporting the artists.