@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
There’ve been a few times where Qman on USEnet has been thanked by artists for ripping and scanning their works at such ridiculous resolutions because their own computer crashed and wiped out their non-web collections, as just one example of the benefit of redundant distribution.
 
This is the very reason I like to save copies to my computer and I think people who get all high and mighty and bent out of shape about reposting and sharing artwork are so short-sighted and immature.

@Choppasmith  
Its more the principle of if they leave or if they’re incapacitated in some way, then no one ever gets a true copy of their work, only the (usually slightly fuzzed) resize of their work.  
Watermarking would be on about the same level really, since you don’t get the proper original pic that way either.  
I’m pretty anal about it because I remember how often that came up simply due to bw/connection speeds in the olden days, and how when the first 1mb connections started rolling out, the oldschool artists that had to actually struggle to get known were overjoyed at finally being able to share the best possible versions of their work easily. Now all these stupid kids these days that just had recognition handed to them on a platter due to the vast variety of internet fandoms don’t realise what selfish dickery that kind of thing really is. There’ve been a few times where Qman on USEnet has been thanked by artists for ripping and scanning their works at such ridiculous resolutions because their own computer crashed and wiped out their non-web collections, as just one example of the benefit of redundant distribution.

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk
 
Eh, not the worst thing in the world IMO. I’d say having big, fat watermarks in the center or freaking out over being linked to/reposted is far worse.

They really need to stop being so selfish with that. Altho you can ask, some of them don’t honestly know DA enables that dumb resizing bullshit by default, because they expect it to be as sanely coded/run as any other site on the web. Those poor sods.

It’s a shame, according to the source, the artist has this at 4000 x 3000 but doesn’t have it available for viewing/download :/ Oh well.