First of all, i don't really understand the current need for this discussion. It's not like the site gets flooded with pirated content right now, the p2p board is pretty much dead. This whole discussion only exists because of one single artist. I haven't read all of that discussion and didn't really care about it, but i went over the last two threads about his work, and it looks like the situation was pretty much this: This artist was pissing of some of his fans by asking for more and more money while being very unreliable, and at some point some paying fans got pissed off to the point where they refused to pay any more, and when somebody asked for the stuff for free, some of those fans gladly complied. And then later his patreon with all his work got deleted and the artist was asking for his fans to pay for his stuff again on a different site, so here we go again. Maybe this isn't the whole truth, i'm not involved in this thing so i might not have all the facts, but the way i see it, if the artist hadn't pissed off some of his fans that much, nothing would have happened. Obviously there are different opinions about this. My personal opinion: There are many artists who are kinda unreliable. If they produce their stuff for free, that's fine - if i'm not paying anything, i have to take what i can get and shouldn't complain too much when i'm not getting what i want. But once an artist starts taking money, there are some expectations he should meet, and if he doesn't, he shouldn't be surprised if his customers aren't happy about it, and sharing his stuff for free is the most logical outcome of that situation.

I don't think the admins need to get involved in that, and i really don't think there need to be any policy updates about copyrighted content on this site. Afaik this has never been an issue, it was always allowed, but as is said, the site doesn't get flooded with pirated content either. This is not about people systematically going after patreon artists to share their stuff for free, this is about paying customers being pissed off about a single artist and for that reason sharing his stuff for free.