Fact is, Pandora is out of the box.
If you are asking if the "tubes" buy legal content? Yes they do. Some don't, who fucking cares?
If you are asking if they have tons of "illegal" content on them? Yes they do.
The fact of the matter is that the pornography game, as far as time goes back has always been a somewhat small operation. Let me explain.
1980s BBS Days: gifs that took 17 hours to load on 300 baud modems made guys thousands; took one horny kid
1990-something-ish, internet born as well as flatbed scanners - again, something a teenager could make a couple of hundred grand a year off of just rescanning the shit he has jerked off to a million times. Anyone with a cam can make HUGE money with "amateurs" and a domain name. 900 billing is fucking HUGE!
I know that is an incomplete synopsis of the entire history of porn online, but my point being...
Pan away to 2010-2011. Most of those same guys that were used to pointing and shooting at local bitches for 100k+ per year are feeling the brunt. It's no longer a small guy's industry. Corporate has taken over. It sucks, I feel it... kind of.
Legal costs would be through the roof, and most are plain out lazy. There are no definitive laws regarding user uploaded content. Some can complain about DMCA laws, but when it comes down to it, once again - Pandora is out of the box.
That leaves the content producers... the little guys used to operating out of their 2 bedroom apartments in the 90s to either:
A) Fight them at the cost of years life's savings
B) They are already broke because the same guys did too much coke and bought shit
C) License it out and pay bitches less
D) fuck "X" number of licenses, let's just sell that 40 min video to 10,000 people if I can - I'll blame it one the tubes stealing my shit
Any way you cut it, something needs to be done. It's sad and it is totally the end of an era. Even the major vets on this board, not naming names, but they try to pull their "clout" and it looks stupid. It's embarrassing actually.
It's a big money game now, and right now all of the money is only going to a few selected corporations. One of those corporations is not me.
Good luck.