'but' is doing a lot of work in this sentence.
Libgen: the reason I never paid for a textbook after my first year of school
Oh come on. The market is rewarding Sci-Hub for its innovation, why does the government has to step in!?
In North Korea, knowledge is strictly regulated and the police arrest students for trying to learn
Poor lass got into so much shit 3 years ago (I think), hope she is doing well
I've heard she's fine, but that was from a post on Twitter a while ago.
She also seems based, from her (Alexandra Elbakyan) wiki: she does not want "the scientists of Russia and of my native Kazakhstan to share the fates of the scientists of Iraq, Libya, and Syria, that were 'helped' by the USA to become more democratic."
She is lol, Twitter handle of sci-hub has/had pictures of lenin. (Whether it’s aesthetic or not, it’s existence is great)
Sci-Hub has been described as "the Pirate Bay of science", and often receives praise for opening access to research.
Who do it steal from? Not the researcher certainly, they will always email you the information when you ask. It is the publisher who do nothing.
Remember that guy that tried to download JSTOR and got sent to jail for like 10 years and then committed suicide?
they don’t make money
Do you have any idea how much researchers usually have to pay for their article to be published?
Oh and don't forget all the optional charges that can get stacked on top of that for extra pages, figures above a certain size, and other bullshit that shouldn't matter at all when none of this stuff gets physically printed anymore, anyway.
It's also ridiculous that a lot of these charges are chalked up to "paper processing fees" when the reviewers and often even the editors are volunteers (who more often than not have to find time outside of office hours to do that, since most universities don't factor it into their academics' expected workloads).
I mean money has a disgusting irrelevance in research when you have grants that build this in, but usually it ranges in the hundreds or thousands of dollars for publishing in major journals. Even more if it’s “open access” but I guess that would be expected.
Hundreds or*
But yeah scientific publishers are one of, if not the, most profitable industries around. They don’t mind at all.
aaron swartz. he was being threatened with time and insane fines, but killed himself before being convicted
Aaron Swartz. He basically became rightfully pissed scientific publications were all paywalled by greedy vampire publisher companies and automated the download of the entirety of JSTOR from the MIT network, planning to publish them (basically make a sci-hub).
They arrested him and basically wanted to give him 1 million in fines and 35 years (!!) in jail. As a result, thinking his life was ruined, he killed himself.
Didn't even know this was a thing, time to educate myself.
Scaremongering? More like advertising.
'Scientist pirate' sounds like a cool DnD class.
Also I can't help but imagine a scene where cops are in a car chase with people getting educated via 'science piracy' and going "Quick, they're getting educated!"
Reminds me of when that fucking soy-faced franchise novelization writer hack, Chuck Wingdings or whatever, tried to get internet archive shut down for being a free library.
Sci hub is far more user friendly and quicker than any University library. I use it rather than log in through three different websites to find out the paper isn't as related as I thought it was. I have yet to meet anyone who thinks it is hurting science.
Maybe they just meant that you should be using a private tracker for your science papers?
The pirate bay of science is a really wonderful compliment, that's so nice of Alexander Martin to say that about Sci-Hub.
"Oh no officer, I wouldn't ever dream of pirating academic papers or textbooks! What websites are they, so I can make sure to avoid them?"
(I do actually know scihub and libgen, as well as mam for other books, but couldn't resist doing a bit)
MyAnonamouse: myanonamouse.net — it's a private torrent tracker primarily for ebooks and audiobooks, with more of a focus on pleasure reading (especially fiction) than scihub or libgen
no problem! if you've never done private trackers before they're a great intro to them and have a super good vibe, everyone's ridiculously friendly
book enthusiasts who are down with piracy sounds like a nice venn diagram of folks
