lol, and here you melted my heart and made me have bad feels. I was about to suggest "the intelligent pirate's code of honor".
"the intelligent pirate's code of honor" is :
pirate's intelligence: the fun stops when the maker cannot make the fun anymore because of too much pirating, so we should balance our pirating with the maker's profit.
the pirate's code of honarrr: if the maker releases in versions; give them their period of release(could be monthly then 1 month, quarterly, then 3 months, half year between releases then 6 months) to profit, when the next version comes out put up the previous version for free so that the pirate version is always 1 release behind. (unless the maker takes an unreasonable amount of time between releases with no valid explanation. [the laziness clause])
this lapse of a pirate version encourages hold outs to flip some coin the maker's way if they don't want to wait an extra month(in example).
obviously the laziness clause accounts for the quality and quantity of the content released. if these things do not seem to add up to the time taken, especially unreasonably so. then yeah, give a buffer period based on the reasonable amount of time to make such content. "6 months to show boobies of a character which already has the boobies made but they are shielded by clothing or censors, and the artist drip drops releases by removing one garment per release... yeah thats too slow for 6 months of a wait to pirate it, speed yer booty up!"
