A bad sign

Damien Hirst’s shark must be one of the most reproduced contemporary sculptures. On Google images, for instance, you can bring up 104 images of The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living in the first ten pages of results (along with 27 images of the Lego version).
So when the Metropolitan Museum exhibits the work surrounded by large “Do not photograph” signs and doesn’t seem to care how many pics are taken, as long as they are not flashed, you start to get the feeling that the sign is more about wrecking the shot than stopping it.