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I'm under the impression that massive investment in DRM is more of a way to satisfy tech and (pirate) culture-illiterate humans while making deals for content. Even Steam needed to nominally do something and Gaben's position on piracy/drm is very well-known.
Why should such humans be satisfied?
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Ok you might want to watch this short documentary. Your fun 'pirated' games and software with 'better support' might cost you dearly when your daughter or your girlfriend/wife gets filmed by a hacker, using your own webcam. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFS3p0emftw - "Security awareness: Filmmaker explores RAT malware, buys access to random PCs for just 15 cents a piece - made short film about his experience" Movie…
"This video contains content from VPRO BROADCAST, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds." The video is unpirated in The Netherlands (VPRO is Dutch too).
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Dangerous for Windows maybe? Most cracked OS X apps make you disable Gatekeeper or System Integry Protection. Game over. So yes, to me that is an invititation.
Any examples of something that requires disabling SIP in cracked version and not original? Never heard of it, sounds implausible but then I'm hardly up to speed. Like I get swapping dylibs, but not why that'd be best done by poking around in /System rather than the binary.
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Dangerous for Windows maybe? Most cracked OS X apps make you disable Gatekeeper or System Integry Protection. Game over. So yes, to me that is an invititation.
Any examples of something that requires disabling SIP in cracked version and not original? Never heard of it, sounds implausible but then I'm hardly up to speed. Like I get swapping dylibs, but not why that'd be best done by poking around in /System rather than the binary.
macappdownload dot com slash fix-damaged-app-message
macappdownload dot com slash how-to-disable-system-integrity-protection-in-macos
These guides are all over their websites, especially at the download stage, where there is a short list of 'download instructions' with a link to these guides.
A while back I read someone saying that these websites are owned by a Russian hacker network. Touch at your own risk.
Sci-hub has been critical to me as I developed the idea for my current startup. If it didn't exist, I could have gotten most of the papers from friends in academia, but it would have been dramatically harder and slower. I use it, I support the concept. I'll make a slight counterpoint however. It costs between $1-$5k (very rough numbers) to publish in open access journals usually. That's not nothing, but it defrays th…
Pay to publish imho always seemed to have a perverse incentive structure to me. Reminds me of the "advertisement" journals you used to see.
The way I see this headed is academic nonprofit orgs self publishing using open source software etc. and recouping costs through membership fees. Journals are already often closely affiliated with orgs, and the members do all the work except copyediting and editorial portals. Academics are also used to paying academic org membership fees for other reasons.
I've already had conversations in this direction with colleagues.
It's either this or eventually things like the preprint services, maybe with sugar on top.
The killer app in this area would be an open source service / server software for running a journal imho. If it were done well it would be hard to beat.
That said, I think traditional publication models are going to be around for awhile, maybe with much more open access or lower pub charges, just because the publishers do provide a service, even if access and price are distorted, and there isn't a uniformly better model at the moment (maybe too big a conversation for typing on my phone).
> Sci-Hub ... an out and out copyright pirate Arrr! Shiver me timbers. > papers harvested (illegally) illegaly? Maybe, in some world states; but not in others. Also, the illegality is temporary. Think of Marijuana in the US (and many other places). A significant fraction of the population uses it. It took them a good number of decades, but they're gradually legalizing it. With scientific publications - Sci-Hub and Li…
A test seems to show it's not blocked though:
https://viewdns.info/chinesefirewall/?domain=sci-hub.tw
Closest mention outside of original article is this The Verge article (2018), saying that they blocked China and Iran for a while because of too many requests from users; but this is sci-hub blocking not China banning
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakya...
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Any examples of something that requires disabling SIP in cracked version and not original? Never heard of it, sounds implausible but then I'm hardly up to speed. Like I get swapping dylibs, but not why that'd be best done by poking around in /System rather than the binary.
Both 'appked' and 'macbed' websites have guides for disabling both Gatekeepr and SIP (now they are derivative websites because the domains keep getting banned/confiscated): macappdownload dot com slash fix-damaged-app-message macappdownload dot com slash how-to-disable-system-integrity-protection-in-macos These guides are all over their websites, especially at the download stage, where there is a short list of 'downl…
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Just for your reference: compliments Complement means when two things go well together.
OP used “complement” correctly - as in, ease of use complements (goes well with) scihub being free.