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My university gives me access to many journals but i still use Sci-Hub. I will never download adobe digital editions just to view a pdf.
And last I checked it does not work on wine and there is no Linux version.
For those who support sci-hub's mission and would like to help ensure it can never be taken away, you may be interested in the following project to lay the groundwork necessary for a widely-replicated, decentralized version of the repository: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library... All of the documents accessed through sci-hub are archived by the library genesis project and made available as t…
For those who support sci-hub's mission and would like to help ensure it can never be taken away, you may be interested in the following project to lay the groundwork necessary for a widely-replicated, decentralized version of the repository: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library... All of the documents accessed through sci-hub are archived by the library genesis project and made available as t…
Except everything after "Looking forward," is still an open research problem. > Some have been exploring IPFS as a potential mechanism IPFS has no anonymity, so individual nodes could be attacked the way individual torrenters got sued back in the day. > but there are many ways this could be done There are currently no scalable ways this could be done. If there were you wouldn't have a single bold researcher providing…
Those aren't lost sales. Nobody sane would pay $40 or so for a 20 pages paper. Even if Scihub didn't exist. Publishers know nobody pays that. There are other options free for academic, such as subscriptions universities pay for or inter-library loans. Non-academic clients may try asking somebody who has a subscription access for a given paper (I know I did provide paper PDFs a few times when asked). Publishers don't…
My roommate is a student with full access to basically all journals. Funny enough, he still uses scihub because it is easier to use.
Those offering a paid services should always ensure there is a benefit and convenience compared to piracy. Valve and Steam wouldn't be here if it was clumsy like in the beginning. Gamers like that getting a game is just a click away, that it installs and checks all the required dependencies, keeps the game file updated, allows you to preload and keep your game saves in the cloud (when possible).
It’s not enforced by police but if you’re doing science or engineering then the biggest employer in your field might be the government (DoD etc.) It’s not all that rare for people to get denied security clearances because of excessive piracy and that would make it way harder for you to be employed.
This is a huge part of the problem with having laws on the books that just aren’t always enforced.
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How on earth can self publishing and open source even be problematic? Let alone equally so as ones whose only role is profiteering by restricting public spread only by if they get their cut or not and providing no validation - peer reviewers.
It's the same "discovery problem" that every long tail market encounters: a significant portion of the tail is going to be either low-quality or irrelevant to most consumers of that domain. So you need aggregators, and those aggregators will face pressure to moderate the long tail by surfacing the most relevant results, while also still providing access to the tail in some form (see also Ben Thompson's aggregation th…
Times change. Sometimes laws -even once good laws- can end up becoming obviously absurd. When that happens in a democracy, the laws can be changed. With all the people using Sci-Hub, I wonder if it is becoming possible to make legislation to either or both * Declare Sci-Hub and its practices legal outright, and make it the new normal. * Carve out extra protections for open access to science in general.
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Except everything after "Looking forward," is still an open research problem. > Some have been exploring IPFS as a potential mechanism IPFS has no anonymity, so individual nodes could be attacked the way individual torrenters got sued back in the day. > but there are many ways this could be done There are currently no scalable ways this could be done. If there were you wouldn't have a single bold researcher providing…
There is nothing that stops nodes from hosting IPFS content from behind a VPN.
Those aren't lost sales. Nobody sane would pay $40 or so for a 20 pages paper. Even if Scihub didn't exist. Publishers know nobody pays that. There are other options free for academic, such as subscriptions universities pay for or inter-library loans. Non-academic clients may try asking somebody who has a subscription access for a given paper (I know I did provide paper PDFs a few times when asked). Publishers don't…
My roommate is a student with full access to basically all journals. Funny enough, he still uses scihub because it is easier to use.
At the end of the day when considering the behavior of large numbers of heterogeneous users, UX is king for all data consumption. The pricepoint matters, but people would use SciHub even if traditional journals somehow moved to free publication... If the UX is better for SciHub.