>>9512
You got is a bit wrong, because the reason why it was posted was because gurochan died and it was kind of attempt to save that content. The person who uploaded it to exhentai thought that those pictures will be lost forever otherwise.
It was actually not so much about artwork itself as it was about how that gallery was tagged. What unfortunately ended as doxing.

There are some other threads on gurochan where people are trying to somehow recover works of artists who stopped posting and deleted everything from internet.
I think it is serious moral issue by itself if creator is allowed to irreversibly destroy his own work or if that happens we should ignore his will and preserve it at any cost.


>>9513
>>Artists WANT to advertise their works

Advertising something is not participation that is, using internet terminology, better known as spamming. And spam is the only universally hated crime on internet.
If artist is really participating by posting real content he is usually treated well. I don't see anyone asking them to post their other works for free either. But artists who post "trailer" and end with "pay to see the rest" are just irritating.

Finally there is nothing wrong to take down works if their creator nicely requests that (preferably with some warning so that everyone could download that at first) but actively deleting posts without artist request is a bit too much.

Another basic unwritten rule on internet forums is that if some creator is participating in this forum properly, his desires are taken into account. If he just comes, requesting something he can be safely told to go back to where he came from. He is not "our" artist he is just some random irrelevant stranger.
Rights do not come for free you have to pay for your right in some way. If artist is paywalling his work he is totally useless to people who are not willing to pay so there is absolutely no reason to respect his desires. To be respected he has somehow prove that by doing it, we get more value than by not doing it.
Of course people who are willing to pay may complain because that creator may be providing some value for them if they assume that artist is selling his work at the lower price than their value.
But this is actually the main question which side you choose. You can't have both. It is similar to Linux community where any commercial or closed code is extremely unwelcome. While non GPL companies label open source as "cancer" or "virus" and hate it just as much.