Your Opinion Wanted!!

I'm looking to get an opinion on Premium Content and how well it works on this site. If it's worthwhile and how limiting it is for manipulators and creators.

I have always really enjoyed offering my photos for free. For me it's a great way to provide a resource to everyone and I love seeing the creations people come back with. Honestly, I love and appreciate every bit of art created using any of the stock I provide. It's amazing the work people make, and fun to see how they use the stock in their own way.

However... now that I've had time to sit down and take a look around the internet, I am noticing some of my stocks scattered around. Offered on other sites to download, used as clipart on websites, album art, sold on Cafe Press, even used as a logo for a doctor... Just various things such as that. It's not that bad, because I don't currently have the widest array of stock to provide, most of the 'stolen' stock are my easier to use PNG cut-outs. Though it is a still a little bit annoying. Who likes to see something they worked on offered for sale on some website, not even changed a bit? I have seen other stockers frustrated by this, eventually pulling all of their images off DA completely.

I feel one way around this is to limit the download of images. I'm not active enough on here by far to ask people to note me for a download link, so that would never work. The other is to make stock available for points. But is that really worth it? Won't people see a charge and move on? What if it's offered for something as low as 1 point? Most active DA users will eventually get a couple points here or there. 1 point would limit downloads to active users but not 'break the bank', so to speak. If that's still too much, users could always send a note for a download request if they don't mind waiting for a reply. It's a thought anyway.

Still, I'm not sure I'm happy with that as a work around. Part of me thinks I should just ignore it and move on. What are your thoughts? I would love to hear from both stock artists and non stock artists on this subject.

Thanks <3