Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
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Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#2Context: Sci-Hub stopped uploading new papers in December 2020, after being ordered to do so by an Indian court. There was (is?) some hope of winning the case which could make Sci-Hub legal in India.
https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els...
Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#3Sci-Hub and LibGen have contributed more to my PhD than my so-called advisers. So thank you Alexandra for your unselfish efforts to make science accessible to all!
Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#4Context: Sci-Hub stopped uploading new papers in December 2020, after being ordered to do so by an Indian court. There was (is?) some hope of winning the case which could make Sci-Hub legal in India. https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264378
Is there actually any update on the case?
Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#5I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of material available. People always point to Wikipedia, but all of that is surface level. If you to build something, research something, or just really delve into it, there’s no substitute for having access to all of the latest textbooks, manuals, and papers. I’ve never found any source paid or otherwise that comes even close.
Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#6Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#7Context: Sci-Hub stopped uploading new papers in December 2020, after being ordered to do so by an Indian court. There was (is?) some hope of winning the case which could make Sci-Hub legal in India. https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26264378
Is there actually any update on the case?
Wikipedia says the restriction was only for a couple weeks:
>In December 2020, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis in the Delhi High Court... >...The high court restricted the sites from uploading, publishing or making any article available until 6 January 2021.
But it's very strange to me that that could go by unnoticed.
Re: Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate
#8What Aaron Swartz did in the 2010's was what we all talked about around that time.
It was everything we read about as hackers in the 90's The Phrack stories for instance about missions to steal (liberate) hardware PABX's from offices.
Swartz literally went into a library to break out info, fucking Gibson.
Alexandra Elbakyan and crew beat that. And bent history. If you think history is a line, Sci-hub (Which is a little different to Libgen) changed that.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there actually any update on the case?
Wikipedia says the restriction was only for a couple weeks: >In December 2020, Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Sci-Hub and Library Genesis in the Delhi High Court... >...The high court restricted the sites from uploading, publishing or making any article available until 6 January 2021. But it's very strange to me that that could go by unnoticed.
Courts are slow. The court date kept getting pushed back (now scheduled in October) and so Sci-hub paused new papers for several months. But apparently Elbakyan’s lawyers have determined that the temporary restriction on uploading new materials has expired.
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#10In https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1414342378765307907 she jokingly asks where her Nobel Peace Prize is.
Given how often that prize is given out as a bully pulpit to advance a cause, and given the global debt that science owes to her, I think she really does deserve one.