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Originally Posted by The Warlock
Nobody is 'suffering' if an artist's work is no longer available. They whine, because they like it, but there's no suffering. He shared something that was his, and he decided it was not in his best interest to share it any more. It's that simple. You don't enter into it.
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Fine, everyone else
is disappointed as a result. Forgive my being colourful.
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Incorrect. He's said as much several times. He's not acting on some paranoid impulse, he's responding to real threats.
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Which, if memory serves, stem from some very very old works he once posted online on some old Geocities site that he wasn't aware still existed, that had his real name on them. Which of course a few people dug up.
Put in his situation, would I want everyone to destroy the works? Yeah, probably, but so long as even one sufficiently determined malicious person has his mitts on the material there's not much you can do about it. The best thing you could probably do would be to immediately drop the moniker, fall off the face of the internet for a while, and then come back under a new name.
Granted, this would also mean you couldn't post any new art publicly without someone inevitably recognizing the style (as demonstrated in the first post of this thread), but... at this point, that's kind of going to happen, you know? The damage's been done.
Although, I suppose by removing
most traces of his work there's less chance that any
new people will find it and stir up crap.