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,,I do not, however, contribute anything to the system; I free-ride off their criminality'' The writer has to constatly remind me that running the proxy is a crime, but using it - even if she knows that it's not the legitimate way to get the information- is not. This may be true, still I don't like the tone, as clearly sci-hub is providing the huge value to people, not her. I wouldn't be surprised if some life saving…

Sci-Hub helped me identify the appropriate life-saving drug for my disabling illness. I could barely sit up and now I'm walking around. It's going through FDA approval very slowly, so I just buy it from a manufacturer from China.

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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…

Aaron Swartz may no longer be with us, but his spirit lives on. It's now up to us to carry on the fight for which he paid so dearly. Has anyone proposed naming an "information making free" service after him yet?

There's the "Aaron Swartz Day" which both Internet Archive and EFF celebrate.

Then there's Star Wars, Swartz always being you you, and such (a joke made with Jonathan Schwartz as well). I quite like that saying, but it may be considered cheap/offending by some.

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