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Despite two lost legal battles in the US, domain name seizures, and millions of dollars in damage claims, Sci-Hub continues to offer unauthorized access to academic papers. The site's founder says that she would rather operate legally, but copyright gets in the way. Sci-Hub is not the problem she argues, it's a solution, something many academics appear to agree with.
Sci-Hub has often been referred to as "The Pirate Bay of Science," but that description really sells the site short.
While both sites are helping the public to access copyrighted content without permission, Sci-Hub has also become a crucial tool that arguably helps the progress of science.
The site allows researchers to bypass expensive paywalls so they can read articles written by their fellow colleagues. The information in these 'pirated' articles is then used to provide the foundation for future research.
What the site does is illegal, according to the law, but Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world. In particular, those who don't have direct access to the expensive journals but aspire to excel in their academic field.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-proves-that-piracy-can-be-dangerously-useful-180804/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by ikanreed on Tuesday August 14 2018, @01:45PM (1 child)
Namely, people can look up the original paper and see that the free press has yet again published bullshit science reporting the over-hypes and misrepresents.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 14 2018, @01:50PM
The only thing I would worry about on any site, not just Sci-Hub, is that they might be publishing falsified or distorted information. As you point out, the free press is far more worrisome than SciHub.
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