If he'd created an anonymous persona for his pixel artwork, Maisel would have been left pounding sand. So if there's no reason to link stuff to your meatspace identity, why risk it?
This. But in a softcore version of the same way that you shouldn't be using your real name while advocating for gay rights in Saudi Arabia: it's a solution eliding a larger problem.
Back in the day, when I was discovering Usenet, it was common advice. But of course, tools for ~anonymity were primitive then. No Tor. No VPNs. Remailers were about it.
How do you mean exactly, can you explain pls? If I create a fake person with Gmail account and tumblr blog, this fake persona posts the artwork, I use it (crediting the fake persona), they can't sue me. But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
No. There is no "I use it". Only the fake persona does.
> But they can problably force me to take down the image anyway?
If you created an anonymous Tor onion site, they'd have a hard time forcing you. But of course, then it's less accessible. So you might just use hosting that caters to spammers and worse.