Well it's been a few days since they deleted the Anime Wallpaper section. I've read through the comments of the news post. I've heard all the arugments that they're just finally enforcing the policy which is based on copyright law, but I can't help but feel they're being hyrpcritical about it.
Now the reason I feel that way is not because the movies and games sections are(currently) untouched and still active. I feel that way because of the stance on fanart.
Copyright law forbids the unauthorized use of copyrighted images. This is taking an image created by some-one else and using it. Regardless of how you use it and regardless of whetehr or not you give credit to the original owner. Current copyright law also gives the copyright owner control and ownership of deriviative works. Two prime examples of derivative works are fanfiction and fanart. Under the law unauthroized fanfiction and fanart are just as illegal as unauthorized use of copyrighted images.
Devart's policy says that they don't tolerate "image theft, plagarism or ripping" as outlined here They say the modifications done to the images people use in wallpapers isn't enough to pass them off as their own works. Intruth the people making these images aren't claiming the characters as their own they're doing them as a homage to shows and characters they like. Yeah I know that doesn't make a difference in the eyes of the law but still. So they delete them in accordance to policy which they say is to protect them from liability in case the original copyright owners find their stuff and get pissed. However fanart which is just as big a liability as the official images used in the wallpapers are allowed. This is where the hypocrisy comes in. Either your policy follows the law or it doesn't. And if it doesn't follow the law completely then it's nothing but a hypocritical joke.