On Lost Works

So, I'm sure this has happened to everyone by this point: you have a favorite work, be it a picture, a story, or an audio file, you save a bookmark or a mental note as to where it is, and then one day it is gone.  Maybe the site it was on was in some back corner of the Internet that finally got scrubbed clean to make room for something else.  Maybe the artist only has so much space and has to make hard decisions as to what to keep.  Maybe the artist has decided to put distance between themselves and the fetish.  Any way it happens, the work is gone, and you do not have a copy.

A while back, I ran afowl of a content creator whose work I like but whose work had been deleted.  This content creator didn't feel these old works were as good as the work they produce today and did not want them shared openly.  I requested the work be posted to InflateChan and got a stern private message for my troubles.  As a result, I don't ask for deleted material anymore.

Still, there are some stories that are now gone, and I think we are worse for it.  A favorite writer of mine, one I would have very much liked to have gotten to know better, trade notes, etc., recently wiped their DeviantArt page clean and has not been seen since.  Unlike the first example, in which I flew in direct defiance of a person's wishes, this person's wishes are less clear.  Their work is gone, but there was no message to stop sharing it.  Should we say that no instructions means the person does not care at this point, or should we infer that the creator does not want their work out in the open anymore from the deleted DA page?  And if they do not want it out in the open, is it okay to share their content via private channel, such as email?  Is it morally okay for me or anyone else to go to Inflate123 or Kane with an email asking for a story whose creator does not want to be shared anymore?

This one's been on my mind for a while.  Just looking for other people's opinions.