That’s too long to read. In keeping with longstanding custom I will comment on the article without reading it: petty theft is petty when only one person does it. It’s a fine line between petty theft and looting.
On second look it actually is not that long and it is worth reading. Ironically the New York Times is a capitalist enterprise and would not like it if you took a newspaper without paying for it but according to these people it is your duty to take as many copies from newsstands and newspaper machines and also to copy and paste the contents of their articles into public websites without compensation to them. In my experience with some of the less, shall we say, law abiding people I have known, the most indignant are thieves who have had something stolen from them. Nothing pisses a thief off more than having something stolen from him. The New York Times will use the full force of the law to protect their copyrights and their physical products.