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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 96 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (25 children)
[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (14 children)

AFAIK the individual researchers who get their work pirated and put on Sci-Hub don’t seem to particularly mind.

Why would they?

They don't get paid when people pay for articles.

Back before everyone left twitter, the easiest way to get a paywalled study was hit up to be of the authors, they can legally give a copy to anyone, and make no money from paywalls

[–] odium@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's still the easiest way. Email them, don't tweet them.

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