[Russell Sobie]

No need to be sorry to disagree! This is a discussion forum, after all. You are, of course, right about getting your skin shown to people in broadcasts (which apparently have way more viewers than I figured). From my own personal experience, however, I very rarely pay attention to other personal liveries outside of the occasional curios click on them when I notice them AFTER I've already raced with someone using the skin in a previous race. I very seldomly restart a race to view newly downloaded skins as I'm usually in the middle of practicing. And even when I do have someone's skin loaded and working, the odds are I won't see them at all during a race. And I have yet to bother watching a broadcast, as cool as that automation is here on SRS. I get way more out of watching replays of myself and more talented drivers via cockpit view!

Anyway, given that it does not appear like there is any way to prevent anyone from using a custom livery that you create, I would follow your advise and alter the preview.jpg for the skin in an attempt to make it obvious that people shouldn't use it. I'm probably going to just stick with keeping the background white and hope that that is enough.