What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?
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What Do You Do with a Stolen van Gogh?
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#2What's the point of posting a link to an article that a significant fraction of the public will not be able to read?
Wouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
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#3What's the point of posting a link to an article that a significant fraction of the public will not be able to read? Wouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
Or better yet, we could not post articles that give fame to a thief.
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#4What's the point of posting a link to an article that a significant fraction of the public will not be able to read? Wouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
Disable javascript on the site using uBlock origin to bypass the paywall.
I think archive.is still archives NYT as well but I'm not 100% confident on that.
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#5"What do you do with a stolen van Gogh? This thief knows"
https://artdaily.com/news/124021/What-do-you-do-with-a-stole...
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#6What's the point of posting a link to an article that a significant fraction of the public will not be able to read? Wouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
Or you could spend the money to read it.
I'm starting to feel like the people who complain about the poor quality of media and aggressive advertising are part of the problem by refusing to pay for content when it is offered to them in an up-front way. As if the entire world is entitled to open access to journalism. Or that paying for news hasn't been how publishers operated for hundreds of years.
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#7A lot of big ticket stolen art is used as collateral for other illegal transactions. Everyone knows it's worthless because you can't unload it. But it shows you are a really good criminal.
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#8What's the point of posting a link to an article that a significant fraction of the public will not be able to read? Wouldn't it be better to create a précis and post that instead?
Or you could spend the money to read it. I'm starting to feel like the people who complain about the poor quality of media and aggressive advertising are part of the problem by refusing to pay for content when it is offered to them in an up-front way. As if the entire world is entitled to open access to journalism. Or that paying for news hasn't been how publishers operated for hundreds of years.
They don't really offer the articles under a payment model that matches my (and apparently many others' reading habits)
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#9Quick answer: They sell them at around 10% value on the black market, or use them as bargaining chips if they're arrested for other crimes.
Clickbait titles leading to long fluffy non-answer pieces can do one.
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#10Quick answer: They sell them at around 10% value on the black market, or use them as bargaining chips if they're arrested for other crimes. Clickbait titles leading to long fluffy non-answer pieces can do one.
Don't forget using them as black-market currency too.