On the surface it's the difference between a few thousand people pirating a shared link to learn a new thing vs a billion dollar company stealing books to make more of a profit. That's the disconnect.

However in this case there are other news outlets reporting the same thing, so there was no need to even link to the New York Times. The same info is free on Reuters and AP among plenty of other places.

If we lived in a just world I would be able to pay NYTimes .05 using some nice stablecoin to read that story, but like the rest of the media, while they can invest 80% of their budget and bandwidth tracking people across their site (including subscribers) and selling that data to brokers and middlemen, they can't get their shit together enough to even think like that.