A few bad apples are going to spoil it for others.

You can see it coming. Once the government agencies, like the fire department, started complaining about drones, it was set in motion.

Regulation is bound to get traction. There isn't going to be alot of sympathy for the drone community either. It's going to be, "They made their bed. Now they can lay in it."

The lack of responsibility of a couple operators are going to bring things like min/max alt corridors, min separation from buildings, people, livestock. It isn't going to take a rocket scientist to figure out it's a cash cow for things like registration fees, insurance, licensing, etc. I can't see how it's going to end any other way.