*Is posting here for the first time.* I've been following this thread for two weeks now. (It's taken me that long to wade through 80-some pages of it) I discovered the booty through Ygallery, ironically enough. One of my friends there had discovered some Final Fantasy sims on it and I downloaded them, then found the link to the Phorum. At any rate, after reading through all of this, I am shocked. Probably shouldn't be, as people like that are normally in things for the money as much as they possibly can be, but still, yes I am.
TSR was, like it was for many people, my very first custom content site experience, pay or otherwise, though I never gave them money. I won't pay money for content, I simply waited until what I wanted came free and downloaded it then. I think now, though, that the booty will get all my business as far as whatever I might need from a particular paysite from now on.
I personally don't care if someone wants to pay for their pixels, but what has lost TSR a member in this case is the information sharing and then the LAUGHING about it. The attitude that they are better than anyone else has just ticked me off.