[wildmusings]

People making themselves wealthy off of crime is a problem for the whole public. It is grossly unfair to everyone, not just the people they directly defraud.

[gowld]

Only if there's some possible connection to the while public.

It's highly likely that whoever is buying art forgeries is spending money they defrauded from the public, so I'd rather those funds get redistributed to an artist and laborers.

Also, the harm, as a percentage of victims' net worth, is trivial compared to crimes the authorities don't help solve.

[bluGill]

As the public my only encounter with some art is if the local museum has it on display. If the local museum buys fraud I'm defrauded by proxy.

[bagacrap]

I for one didn't read this article and think that I was getting shafted