IMPORTANT - Content Being Pirated (Opinions Needed) (Patreon)
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Dear Patrons,
It has been brought to my attention that there is a site (perhaps even more than one) that is sharing content directly from my Patreon. It's not just me that's having content shared but also an alarming amount of other creators that I know from DeviantArt and other websites like Pixiv.
The way this particular site works is it seems to automatically post EXACTLY what's listed in a Patreon post. This means when I post a set of images with the Patreon logo as a censor it will post those exact images and description without bothering to get the uncensored images from Dropbox. Or when I make a video post it only shows the screenshots and text from the Patreon post itself, not the actual video file. I'm actually pretty lucky in comparison to other creators, not all of my work is able to be shared (such as uncensored images and video files) since those are exclusively hosted on Dropbox and that has a password that changes every month. Other content creators who mainly post pictures and text are totally screwed though on that site.
I was thinking about ways to combat this website's piracy (such as only posting preview images) but every time I think of a solution like that I feel like it would hurt the experience of my actual Patrons, which obviously isn't fair to them. As I mentioned before the sharing doesn't affect me too badly since I mainly use Dropbox so if I choose to keep everything as is it's not too big of a deal.
What are your thoughts on how this should be dealt with? Should I leave things as is or should I just post preview images and have Patrons mainly view content on Dropbox? As my Patron your opinion on this topic matters so please let me know what you think. I have also added a poll to help visualize the general consensus of everyone's opinion.