Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

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Your choice of words may trigger some people around here...

Agreed

Yep, I just found out about it recently because I was doing research on a project. I had heard, but never explored or looked into, sci-hub. I had no idea about it. I don't know how I missed it all of these years!

Fr. After I graduated I was cut off from access to scientific literature, which is a major blow when trying to keep up in ones field.

“It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”

Well, I'm convinced!

That can't sounds like won't

former director of the American Institute of Physics

arXiv, which physicists setup nearly as far back as the web, would have a word with this guy. The web was invented at CERN practically so physicists could share research documents.

“Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”

Tautology School Degree. Why not?

I could almost see sympathize when it came to paper publishing. Because the cost to publish was high, and not a lot of people buying. But now with electronic formats, yeah, they are total assholes in the current sense.

Elbakyan is an immeasurably more virtuous, noble and honorable person than these Dylla and Greco worms.

The existence of publishers for scientific literature is completely unnecessary in the modern era. They exist only to make profits to continue their existence. They don't actually provide value anymore when research institutions can just conduct peer review and then let researchers self-publish.

They create negative value (a bottleneck) by limiting who can access research for just... aggregating and hosting articles.

‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers.

We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.

Instead, he just takes everything from authors and reviewers for free. Is he living in a different country?

Yeah lmao, that's the worst possible argument he could give I think

"Have you forgotten your economics class?" And then compared public research to a private newspaper

Like, lmao

"Does this for profit news agency require money for information? Then surely academic research needs to require money to get the info as well! Nevermind that public funds are involved with a lot of research initially where news orgs don't have that, we need to make a profit cuz reasons!"

economics class

which is absolute ideology anyhow

“Does The Washington Post have a paywall?”

wow, you're using the everyone else is doing it argument. These are fucking children

I get so pissed when I think about Aaron Swartz. He was a bit before his time. I'd love it if here were still around. There would be so much more people rallying behind him these current times.

I totally agree that she just liberated it. But since many lawsuits said she was "stealing" from them, and people who don't know the details at first glance may think that too. So I think the headline is correct in a news sense. And the article is very accurate and favorable of her.

These articles were stolen, by the paywall operators. Elbakyan rescued them from the thieves. 🎉

When a regular person makes something available that shouldnt be behind a paywall to begin with it's stealing. When a billionaire or company uses ai to gather data from paid sources or just straight out plagiarises it's just maximising profits.

Also I have met people who have published some pretty important papers, most of them use scihub on a weekly basis, and none of them care that their papers get "stolen". And they all have some strong opinions about Elsevier.