Having been in this space (torrenting TV shows), the problem was taking in the money to keep the lights on. I was lucky that PayPal were aware of the scale of our operation and kept their own set of logins, but were happy to look the other way as long as it was never vocalized in phone calls or emails.

Once you have to switch to crypto for funding things get very hard as Average Joe doesn't know a damned thing about how to send you a chunk of Monero.