100% agree with this; Though i would dispute that what she is doing is "illegal". When the deck is completely stacked against you, going outside the rules is not "illegal".
Every rational, educated person on this planet should support free access to Knowledge if we are to achieve a fairer, egalitarian society.
More power to Sci-Hub, LibGen and their brethren !
Yes it is. Things are "illegal" when they're in the law book, regardless of which law they're breaking and what they're standing up for.
That's why we have juries of peers, and the ability of a jury to say "this person did the thing, but they shouldn't be punished for it".
Probably oughtta get the Kazakhstani Disney police right on it.
The only impediment is they accept cryptocurrency and I am too lazy to get well versed with it. Not forgetting to mention the prices are currently through the roof, and TBH unaffordable for me.
But just like I regularly support Wikipedia and USENIX with modest but periodic donations, I would like to support Sci-Hub as well.
Cryptocurrencies are divisible into tiny fractional units, so you don't have to buy a whole unit of a cryptocurrency to use it. While it is a small hassle to convert your currency to cryptocurrency before sending it, if you use an exchange like Coinbase, it's not much harder than transferring money to a different bank/investment account.
Yes, along with all the KYC requirements that coinbase require, just like my investment account does. Meanwhile the bar for services like Pateron, paypal, shopify, etc is one click and done.
remember a few hundred years ago, horse drawn carts were a big business but cars drew them to extinction. should we bring back horse drawn carts monopoly of the old just because they were something once?
on a sidenote, why arent authors and researchers publishing on scihub directly?
Because Elsevier own prestigious journals that authors want to publish on. Its like saying why compete in the Olympics when you can compete in your local races.
Many compsci/physics/math researchers already submit preprints (or post-prints even) of their papers to arXiv, which is public: https://arxiv.org/. I'm confused, is there a reason why they should they submit to Sci-Hub too?
I’m rooting for the little guys...
Piracy is result of unfair prices. Music used to be pirated all the time but then Spotify came along with subscription based services. I don't know anyone who still pirates music. Maybe people with IP and copyright claims should learn from Music industry.
What do you mean by that? It's already a bunch of torrents on the official SciHub page.
There are clauses from the days of shipping vinyl to record stores, regarding breakage of disks. The label keeps a percentage (5% - 10% can't remember correctly), for broken disks. They still use these clauses decades after they have <edit>lost</edit> any basis in reality.
The Police financed the recordings themselves, to get higher royalty percentages.
Have you read about majors suing artists for damages after their albums flopped?
How much do the people earn that made the music in the first place? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/19/zoe-keati...
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2019/12/06/zoe-keating-spot...
Further reading here, published 21 years ago: https://www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
An economically optimal price is one that maximizes total profit.
If it's too high, fewer people will buy the product, which might reduce profit. If it's too low, the profit margin will be small in spite of lots of units sold.
At the current state of affairs, Scientific Publishers can be reduced as "curators" of public research publications. They may work very well at that (i.e. reading something from Nature, or from JAMA has its prestige) but there is no reason why they should gate the knowledge behind paywalls. They should offer their "curation/selection" services, dedicated to create lists/collections of scientific articles already published elsewhere for free.
Everybody had a bunch (or thousands) of MP3s because mobile phones weren't a thing, fast mobile connections weren't a thing and there was simply no infrastructure to have something like Spotify.
If we'd have Spotify with everything in 2003, we would not swap hard drives in school breaks.
India uses British English.
