I think that happened pretty quickly, yeah.

I'm not sure livelihood is the appropriate term for something that earns you enough to buy a mansion on a private island.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/livelihood

And explain how even one "example" listed on this page is a guy who doesn't need the money railing about digital piracy from his private island, and I'll shut up. The comic and manga markets really do suffer, a lot, from digital piracy, for example.

And the ones wailing loudest for some reason are not the artists who really make manga or comics, but either a business-club for some mysterious reason dubbed "MAFIAA", oligopolist labels or interchangeable rappers mass-produced by them. Strange, isn't? =)

Of course, "guys who doesn't need the money railing from their private islands" by now rail not about "digital piracy", that was decades ago. Now they rail about how people has no right to press any remote control buttons while viewing their product art (though grudgingly allowing their much-respected fans a walk into bathroom — so far). Or that everyone buying CD-R should pay them and it's still everyone else robs them blind.

I have seen quite a few artists rail against digital piracy. The whole thing with Black Butler is an example. Also while a lot of creators do make these in jest there trying to remind you that they want you to buy their product.

T Beholder, MAFIAA is the nickname pirates give to the MPAA, I believe. ( and the reason you don't hear about the small artists getting hammered by piracy is generally due to very few people listening, and them not knowing how to get their voices heard.)

I don't have this exact problem, but I see this sort of thing occasionally in other tropes. No idea what causes it, but it's really not that big a problem.

(sigh) WIkIwoRds. One of annoying engine features. That is, wiki engine will accept whatever you give it as long as the first letter is capitalized and won't correct it unless {{wikiword}}s are in curly brackets.