That is somewhat ambivalent in many ways. If Del shared this to you (or
anyone in particular), he was fine with it being spread in the first place and in full. He'd probably only release in smaller chunks if he was - for some unknown reasons - not happy with those being spread. And certainly not handing out a "master key" to online-stored albums that fluctuate by definition unlike physical media which can't be copied - the media itself that is. So what exactly was the plans behind that "share all at once but with only a few people that in return will share it anyways after requests" and all that in a forum whose main purpose is exactly that? It's a strange casual chain in my opinion. Remembers me to the discussion about webspiders or whatever these services are called (they save a webpage for local use) where people put stuff online and then wonder why it circulates, almost like people grab stuff that has been put out there to be grabbed in the first place.
I do have a certain amount of respect remaining for someone not wanting to share "theirs" (whatever that might be), but since this link is in circulation since over 3 years as the forum post I dug it out was from 2019 if I remember correctly, Del could have pulled the plug literally years ago, especially with increased accesses and download traffic. I mean, it's in total
77.75 GByte.
The ship has sailed if scarcity was the main focus of that link to be kept secret. I will do a last sweep today though because I expect every ressource to be gone - that's why I prefer local storage
