> Piracy is an age-old occupation, particularly prevalent in places and times when large gaps have separated the rich and the poor. The NY Times says it's not

> Piracy is an age-old occupation, particularly prevalent in places and times when large gaps have separated the rich and the poor. The NY Times says it's not the fault of criminality, but of income inequity! > But filched cargo can be hard to get a handle on; it shape-shifts, in effect. If you’re buying brand-new speakers from someone’s trunk in a parking lot, you can probably deduce that there’s a good chance they were ripped off. But the anonymity of the internet essentially launders stuff. What a bad example! The "Speakers from the van" scam usually involved cheap "AliExpress" Speakers that the seller makes the buyer _think_ are expensive, misappropriated speakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_van_speaker_scam It's sad what's happened to the NY Times. I dropped my subscription two months ago -- and I had subscribed continiously since 1980.