It never, ever feels less violating. It's upsetting," said Siri Dahl, a popular adult film actress and advocate for performers' rights, when I interviewed her for my podcast. Early in her career, Dahl noticed behind-the-paywall selfies pop up in tube-site ads for "predatory, weird, fake dating sites." Adding insult to injury, one of the ads using her stolen photo was captioned "Frick hot old chubby MILFs right now." At the time, she had just turned 24.
My thief had made off with a huge archive of over three years' worth of content, mostly photos with a handful of videos. It was devastating to learn that the thief was one of my subscribers—they were supposed to be a fan, not a menace. I had a fox in my henhouse. I felt totally exposed.
You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and download porn? 
I'm sure this sucks for her and piracy is a real problem for any kind of internet creator, but right-click is not exactly a shocking new online development.
My piracy experience took me back to 2008, when I was a frustrated actor who finally snagged a decent-paying gig teaching at a camp for med school–destined high school kids. I was doing a great job, the kids loved me—maybe too much, because they looked me up on the internet, and then I got fired for having my boobs on the internet. It wasn't even porn: It was topless screen grabs from an artsy independent film I'd starred in a few years prior.
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The article is all over the place. These 2 paragraphs are literally right next to each other but they clearly contradict each other. The first paragraph says that people who share her stuff for free must be misogynists who don't think she deserves to get paid and the second paragraph says people share her stuff for free because they think it helps her.
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