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Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by unityByFreedom »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #66
unityByFreedom wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The market withholds food when they tell you to pay first before taking it home. The same is fair for an author. You don't need to fear paywalls. You're capable of learning and creating the same knowledge as any other person.

I don't fear paywalls. I create, fund, and advocate for circumvention tools because withholding something of value that is instantly copyable and virtually free to share is morally abhorrent. It's your right to withhold information just as it would be your right to withhold water if you had the only well in town. Likewise it's my right to use information to liberate withheld information just as it would be my right t…

> It's your right to withhold information just as it would be your right to withhold water if you had the only well in town

Information is like the food in my example, not the "only water supply" in yours. Leibniz and Newton independently developed calculus, for example.

> you're thinking only of yourself. That's your right; take the low road if it makes you happy.

It's not selfish to be compensated for your work. Authors can choose themselves whether they want to make some of their work freely available, just as a market can give away some food or not.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by jsilence »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #43
dragonsh wrote: post #18

I am of the opinion knowledge should be free and easily accessible. Research papers through sci-hub only helps to make knowledge easily accessible. Humanity's progress depends on people who shared their knowledge, not by people who use it as a tool to rule and hold on to power. It will be nicer if whole sci-hub is able to move to IPFS network and accessible through a domain. The problem is IPFS do not offer anonymity…

> I am of the opinion knowledge should be free and easily accessible. I understand hatred for academic publishers, however this argument makes no sense. It takes work to produce human knowledge. Writing a book, creating educational materials, and writing research all takes time, just like it takes time to build a house.

Usually the work of the creators has already been paid for by public finding. Research grants etc..

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by sundarurfriend »

shuhari wrote: post #67
xvilka wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just an arXiv with peer-review is not enough. There is a lot of room for innovation and improvement. There was quite an interesting discussion[1] about creating something in between Overleaf[2], ArXiv[3], Git, and Wikipedia, moreover with the ability to do a peer-to-peer review, discussion, and social networking. Check out the last[4] article in that series. There are a few implementations, albeit not covering all fe…

I will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas. Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'. http://asone.ai/

Why is it on a ".ai" domain suffix?

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by matheusmoreira »

palijer wrote: post #36

HTTP 451. I never thought I'd see one of those before. I live in Canada... Not some authoritarian dictatorship. Wonder who blocked it.

Same result here in Brazil. An HTTP status code implies the domain name was properly resolved to the IP of the HTTP server. The page must have been removed by the host.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by praptak »

WilTimSon wrote: post #16

Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it. However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to giv…

Just pay your taxes. I would also say "vote for politicians who make science funding a 1st class issue" but I don't know any.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by shuhari »

sundarurfriend wrote: post #84
shuhari wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will probably create a Show HN thread very soon to officially announce it, but I am creating a startup that aims to cover these areas. Essentially it's 'Reddit + Patreon for research'. http://asone.ai/

Why is it on a ".ai" domain suffix?

The other ones were taken. :(

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by sa46 »

MacsHeadroom wrote: post #51
unityByFreedom wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am of the opinion knowledge should be free and easily accessible. I understand hatred for academic publishers, however this argument makes no sense. It takes work to produce human knowledge. Writing a book, creating educational materials, and writing research all takes time, just like it takes time to build a house.

Information freedom radicalism is not in any way mutually exclusive with compensating creators. Grants, shareware, donationware, donation subscriptions (like patreon), crowdfunding, and the list goes on and on- of all the ways information creation is compensated prior to the information being given away for free. Copying information takes virtually no work. It's not unreasonable to hold that the concept of "intillect…

I don't follow your argument: "information creation is compensated prior to the information being given away for free." You can't give something away for free by requiring compensation beforehand.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by matheusmoreira »

unityByFreedom wrote: post #61
MacsHeadroom wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're mixing up free of cost with free as in liberty. Information freedom is about liberating access to information not demonitizing creators. In the context of freedom of information the opposite of free information is not funded information- it's censored, withheld, horded, etc.

The market withholds food when they tell you to pay first before taking it home. The same is fair for an author. You don't need to fear paywalls. You're capable of learning and creating the same knowledge as any other person.

> The market withholds food when they tell you to pay first before taking it home. The same is fair for an author.

Food is finite. When you buy material goods, you subtract from the seller's supply of goods and add to your own. It's impossible to create new goods out of nothing. Since there isn't enough for everyone, an economy naturally arises.

Information is infinite. Copying and transmitting data is not only trivial, it is natural. That's why people came up with ways to create artificial scarcity. The only cost associated with human knowledge and art is that of creating it. After it's created, information costs $0.

All data, all files on a computer, they're essentially just really big numbers that humanity happened to discover. Once the number is known, modern computers make it possible to copy and transmit it for almost $0. Paywalls? Only one person needs to pay in order to get copy and distribute it to everyone else.

Nobody is saying creators shouldn't be compensated. We're saying they need a new business model. It's the 21st century. You no longer need huge printing presses in order to make copies of something at scale. It's as easy as copy paste.

Re: Where Sci-Hub Is

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Post by zelphirkalt »

WilTimSon wrote: post #16

Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it. However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to giv…

Do not feel bad. You are the benefit. More precisely, your education is. We should try to maximize people's potential and share knowledge with everyone, who wants to learn, instead of hiding it behind paywalls.
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