Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience
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#2I'm surprised there aren't more comments here. Maybe it's because most agree, and there really isn't much more to be said?
Anyways, thank you very much for sharing.
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#3I'm surprised there aren't more comments here. Maybe it's because most agree, and there really isn't much more to be said? Anyways, thank you very much for sharing.
Yeah currently there are 50 upvotes and 2 comments. You see that kind of ratio when TFA is simply correct.
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#4What an amazing woman. She tries to downplay her accomplishment by mentioning in the comments that she was only responsible for grabbing over 20 million papers. Nice try, but that's still a remarkable job!
Edit: not sure if the commenter is her, but she's done amazing work regardless.
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#5Civil disobedience is an important form of democracy. Maybe in the future, when all of our calls, messages and identities are monitored in full by our benevolent overlords, we won't be able to practice it anymore. Right or wrong, faraway anti-Western countries have served as counterweights against the West for Snowden, Assange and Elbakyan.
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#6I am poor, which I use as my primary excuse to pirate software, movies, books, etc.
To those who are not financially struggling: Why do you pirate? What is your moral justification?
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#7I am poor, which I use as my primary excuse to pirate software, movies, books, etc. To those who are not financially struggling: Why do you pirate? What is your moral justification?
The issues surrounding scientific publication are much more nuanced than that.
Did you read the article?
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#8I am poor, which I use as my primary excuse to pirate software, movies, books, etc. To those who are not financially struggling: Why do you pirate? What is your moral justification?
When I did it on a regular basis? "I want it, and I know how to get it without negative consequences.". It's no moral justification, but neither is "I'm poor".
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#9I am poor, which I use as my primary excuse to pirate software, movies, books, etc. To those who are not financially struggling: Why do you pirate? What is your moral justification?
When I did it on a regular basis? "I want it, and I know how to get it without negative consequences.". It's no moral justification, but neither is "I'm poor".
I agree, but I think "I'm poor" is better than "I want". Neither completely justifies.
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#10One aspect of Aaron Swartz's case that I found both interesting and way under-reported, was that he supposedly was going to perform meta-analysis against the collected documents. And that a previous meta-analysis of a similar sort had revealed some surprising and useful results.
With all the pieces locked up, it is difficult if not impossible to do such science and statistical analysis. In other words, it is antithetical to the nature of science. I didn't see/read enough to confirm this, in Schwartz's case. Nonetheless, I think the idea and the opinion are valid.