User blog comment:SpiderRolling/ Banning Downloads Links Discussion/@comment-24527051-20181031185322

I'm very conflicted myself. I am kind of pro-reupload, but I often feel the need to contact a dev if I want to reupload work they've taken down. I was quite a different person back in 2014-15 so I reuploaded Kudaranu Mousou No's old version and Inspiration without hesitation. I really don't want to feel like a hypocrite in all this. I now feel like we're treating these little games like big, important artifacts of history instead of, you know, passion projects. We're not a big fandom, and if this was any other bigger fandom, it'd come off as creepy to make an entire archive of other people's fan-works. Even after saying that, I still feel somewhere that these are often entire games, not stories or art, so they're mostly higher-quality works. (You can tell that I have quite a lot of trouble forming opinions on my own...)

Although I do want to respect the wishes of the developers, wanting a game to be completely forgotten is an incredibly unrealistic and unfair request, to be quite honest. I feel like it would make fans of LcdDem feel ashamed to like it and quite insulted (correct me if I'm wrong). I sort of want to say we should separate an artist's behavior from the art itself, but I don't want that statement to justify straight-up reposting art or games.

Some of my friends say Coma's a different case because the developer actually came to the wiki and told us to take the game down. But to this I say: what's the difference between a Japanese dev asking in a public post to forget their game, and an English-speaking dev coming to a wiki and asking the game to be taken down? They both want their game gone from the internet. I feel like both sides need to equally respect each other with these things. (Again, I was a different guy in 2014-15 so my opinions were different then.) See, with our side of the fandom, we, a lot of the time, just reupload a foreign user's stuff without permission nowadays. When the fangame comes from our side though, we are often quite hesitant to re-distribute it (except Inspiration's case because it's a popular fangame.) To this I say: why is it different then?

I really don't know where I'm going with this... sorry if I'm not that helpful. But I still wanted to share my thoughts. Thanks for reading, and I'm sorry if this was a pretty long comment.