He only did it on pirate sites apparently, but that still is super scummy. He added malware files and uploaded it himself to the pirate sites. Look. I get piracy sucks. But hat is not the appropriate response.
Piracy might be less of a problem if they didn't charge $30 for an early access game, and then withhold months worth of updates because you don't pay them even more money on a monthly basis, and then not even let you download older versions when the newest one contains game breaking bugs
We only charge for people that believe our game is worth $30. If you don't consider it is worth that then why do you want to play it? We do not withold updates, they are ready as soon as we get them ready, Patreon builds are not good to be published publicly on stores like Itch.io