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posted by chromas on Tuesday August 14 2018, @01:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the on-the-one-hand-information-wants-to-be-expensive…on-the-other-hand,-information-wants-to-be-free dept.

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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/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @05:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 15 2018, @05:50AM (#721691)

    She also deserves to pay the $20 million in judgments levied against SciHub. Including the $5 million that was awarded by default because she didn't feel a need to respond to the lawsuit. (Which, anywhere, is regarded as conceding guilt.)

    She's not Edward Snowden, as much as some people would like to portray her as.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:32AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @06:32AM (#722070)

    No she doesn't. Luckily, there are still some countries out of the reach of morons like you.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @04:11PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 16 2018, @04:11PM (#722280)

      The courts would disagree with you about whether she is required to pay them.

      And what is truly moronic is to completely ignore a lawsuit as it has been reported she did with ACS suit. Allowing someone to secure a default judgment against you. That's stupid. That allows for broad injunctive actions the likes of which the Internet has rarely seen because she didn't arrange to defend herself.

      I see that there is an extradition treaty between Kazakhstan and the US. She'd better be careful or the next step may be somewhere along the spectrum of Richard O'Dwyer or Kim Dotcom. And it doesn't seem like she's got Dotcom's resources to stall an extradition.