Please don't post baseless accusations. I think dang has said that he tries to moderate less, not more, when YC companies are involved. (Although it's impossible to say what he would do in this situation.)
HN is currently facilitating piracy. Something your comment failed to address.
Like I said in another comment it is simpler than that. They just serve the login page/payment page to all HTTP requests. If they do that then the submission itself likely get's flagged as there is no workaround (just like if I submit my blog with a banner saying "hey you pay me $1 to read my cool post")