Upcoming changes to access regarding Patreon paid membership

I’ll try to make this as simple as possible. I’ve started being much more protective of my owned rights/copyright of my work. I even include in model’s licenses that the one main thing they can’t do is to redistribute the images to individuals or entities as it is only my right as copyright owner to do so. I recently discovered that Patreon aids subscribers in saving my posted images in the same size and resolution in which I’ve posted. After some digging I discovered that a popular reason for subscribing to a creator’s page is to download all of their images to redistribute and profit from. Patreon aids this because it results in a significant boost in subscriptions that they profit from. For music creators they offer a on/off toggle to allow downloads to keep musical content from being stolen. When I brought this up to them they claim they’re not able to do the same for images creators, which is absolute nonsense.

For those of you currently or potentially subscribing to my Patreon feed, or if you just want to keep up with the saga and see how it works out for me I’ll post updates here but I’m building an email list in case there is any type of content that wouldn’t be proper to share here.