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Thanks, I emailed Dang to update the url to the “lore” subpage. The linked website is the official site of the Album owner. The homepage simply shows a countd

Thanks, I emailed Dang to update the url to the “lore” subpage. The linked website is the official site of the Album owner. The homepage simply shows a countdown clock to the release date of the album originally scheduled for 2103, but the release date/clock is being reduced in real-time based on album purchases. This Album is the highest selling album of all-time, it only had 1 physical copy made, and the ownership history is just as interesting. For more info on the Album here is the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin

dang 2y ago
We've changed the URL from https://www.thealbum.com/ https://www.thealbum.com/ to the NYT article about it, which has more background and will hopefully be more interesting.
- ralferoo 2y ago
  Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard. I've now read the other article, and it's fascinating. Somehow I missed the story about the arrest and this album at the time...
- judge2020 2y ago
  Ah yes, an amazing source where you can only read it if you're duped into signing up for a 12 month commitment to them for the pleasure of watching your pocket book sucked dry. Both the /lore page and the wikipedia article provides more information about it for free than the NYT does.
  - dang 2y ago
    If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=paywalls%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

dang 2y ago

We've changed the URL from https://www.thealbum.com/ https://www.thealbum.com/ to the NYT article about it, which has more background and will hopefully be more interesting.

ralferoo 2y ago
Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard. I've now read the other article, and it's fascinating. Somehow I missed the story about the arrest and this album at the time...
judge2020 2y ago
Ah yes, an amazing source where you can only read it if you're duped into signing up for a 12 month commitment to them for the pleasure of watching your pocket book sucked dry. Both the /lore page and the wikipedia article provides more information about it for free than the NYT does.
- dang 2y ago
  If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=paywalls%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989