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Too bad it's blocked by our telecom :( > Dear customer, Due to a warning in accordance with Section 81 (1a) UrhG / preliminary injunction / court decision, access to this website had to be blocked.
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.
This is not true. Your ISP can in theory route the requested address to whatever they want. In the Netherlands TPB is blocked and my ISP returns a 200 status code which shows their blocking landing page. Other ISPs give a 30x redirect to their domain.
Basically the ISP can do a man in the middle attack.
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> 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.
> 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. My understanding is that most / all articles in academic journals are written by researchers who are not paid by the journal. Then, the articles are peer reviewed by another set of researchers - who are also not paid by the journal. Then, those same…
Source: have research publications, always happy when someone reaches out
PSA for those looking for access to research papers. If it's hard to find via scihub/libgen, you can also email the authors. No researchers want their work to be inaccessible, they just need to publish in journals for visibility/prestige. Source: have research publications, always happy when someone reaches out
Hi all, I made this. I just received a notice from Zeit that they blocked it: > I am writing to let you know we have blocked your deployment: whereisscihub.now.sh > This is because the deployment contained illegal content. > Please let me know if this is not the case or if you have any questions. I hadn't noticed it was on Hacker News, but that explains the sudden attention. While I don't believe the site was illegal…
I ended up removing the links because I didn’t want get into more legal trouble with Elsevier. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606362
I think in software you don't appreciate how important papers are compared to other subjects like chemistry. I wonder if they had hobbyists in mind when they built that site.
In software, many times new things come out of industry, and conference papers are (IMO) equally prevalent as journal papers.
Hi all, I made this. I just received a notice from Zeit that they blocked it: > I am writing to let you know we have blocked your deployment: whereisscihub.now.sh > This is because the deployment contained illegal content. > Please let me know if this is not the case or if you have any questions. I hadn't noticed it was on Hacker News, but that explains the sudden attention. While I don't believe the site was illegal…
Something similar happened to me ( https://twitter.com/Citationsy/status/1156626811398307840 ) when I posted a link to Sci-Hub on my blog. In the EU it’s apparently copyright infringement to link to copyright infringing URLs. I ended up removing the links because I didn’t want get into more legal trouble with Elsevier. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606362
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Something similar happened to me ( https://twitter.com/Citationsy/status/1156626811398307840 ) when I posted a link to Sci-Hub on my blog. In the EU it’s apparently copyright infringement to link to copyright infringing URLs. I ended up removing the links because I didn’t want get into more legal trouble with Elsevier. More details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20606362
We actually had a chat about that on Twitter :) That said, the site didn't really link to infringing material - just to the homepage of Sci-Hub. Technically, you could also append something to the URL to make you end up at a page with infringing content, but there was no explicit link to there from the site, and it can be used for non-infringing content as well.
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> things are slowly changing, as people & institutions with the right amount of power and leadership are starting to take action. Where exactly, what people and institutions?
You can check for yourself - on providing and dissemination, check Arxiv & Siblings. On institutions, check e.g., University of California, or search, e.g., "Elsevier's Paywall" using some internet search service to find names.