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For these publishers, that's a welcome side effect. Having a small number of private companies control access to what should be communal resources, solely to enrich themselves and …

It's copying, not theft. The latter deprives someone of an item, the former increases its availability. An important distinction when considering the purpose and goals of Sci-Hub.

Was her identity well-known before the Elsevier court case, where she was named? I thought the publicity for her efforts was made after this, in English language media anyway. Thou…

> Let me reply to your last sentence by saying I do not think it is sexist to use the word “hysterical”, which has a well-understood meaning apart from its etymology, to someone wh…

> Ms. Elbakyan attacked me rather hysterically on Twitter when she learned of an article on my site that describes several methods to acquire free copies of scientific articles, Ju…

Not only should there should be no autonomous drones, the non-autonomous remote controller hardware should be wired up such that if they are shot out of the sky, this kills the hum…

This proposed seizure would be conditional on such assets belonging to the royal family. So it would only be a precedent for any additional monarchical assets discovered after the …

> By "fill their pockets" I mean actively engage in political corruption. But they do. For example, the Queen used her power to get an exemption from transparency laws with regards…

> The fact that over 60% of people like to live in a country where birth defines a family's worth as higher than everyone else is mind boggling. On a more uplifting note, polls ind…

This supposed 'intellectual property theft' is mostly just reverse engineering of technology. It's not really a problem anyway. If some capitalists in the US and Europe don't get t…

An upload site for papers, but with a cryptocurrency scam attached. Useless.

The fact that this is a VC-backed startup pretty much guarantees it will be doing nefarious things with its users' data somewhere down the line. Even if not intended right now.

> The product is not tainted because it was made by prisoners, but because your justice system sucks. The product is tainted because it was made by enslaved workers being exploited…

> I feel like this article is pointing a gun at the wrong faces. These companies are most likely doing this as a form of social giving. No, they're doing it because they know they …

This is the most "keyboard warrior" comment I've ever read.

> We should shut down Russian infrastructure as retaliation. How about, instead of causing harm to innocent Russian people by such pointless escalation, the US makes a serious and …

> Given paying with crypto is as easy as a QR scan these days once someone is onboarded, the other claim that you use, convenience, is about to go out the window: see venmo, PayPal…

The article isn't wrong though. The main uses of cryptocurrencies, other than as speculative assets, are online drug dealing and ransomware payments. For almost every other applica…

Despite your unnecessary sarcasm, this is actually a good example, seeing as the company was eventually destroyed by the US government for abusing its monopoly position. They did i…