Question about Free Download

Szeh

I noticed about a week ago that there's a new section - Free Download. The description says
"There is no basic fee for downloading in this section.
Any threads with copyright disputes will be moved to this section.
Please download as soon as possible as we may move it to pinebk.com".
My questions are:
1. What do you mean by "basic fee for downloading"? When I download patterns from there, I still need to pay. Unless I'm missunderstaning? :(
2. What copyright disputes? I mean, it never seemed to be a problem before, even if the creator noticed that their pattern is available on PinDIY :o  So what changed? Also if there are copyright disputes, why do they only concern some of the patterns (for example we have creator X. There are several patterns of theirs available here: Y, Z, Q, etc. The patterns moved to Free Download are Y and Z, but not Q)?
3. From what I understand pinebk.com is a site for talking, being in a community and farming Pins. Will it change and will there be patterns available as well? So even if I don't download a pattern now and it gets deleted from here, will I still be able to download it from Pinebk.com at a later date?

Sorry for all the questions :L

BluBrd

I dont' hav ealnwserw but I'm also curious.

About your 1st question, the basic download fee disappears for the patterns in that section (other patterns you have to pay 30 Pin to download, which add up to the price you pay for the pattern). The pattern price remains unchanged.
Say, if a pattern is priced 100 Pin by the person that uploaded it, you will have to pay a total of 130 Pin to get it in any section, except the "Free pattern" section where you would only pay 100 Pin.

About the 2nd question, I only have a hypothesis, which is that Pinbk would be some sort of backup for this forum in case it gets taken down because of copyright issues.

About the 3rd, I have no idea though.