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Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by janeroe »

BelenusMordred wrote: post #6
mariuolo wrote: post #2

Not much they can do to her in Russia. I also assume she's smart enough not to keep anything important in her iCloud.

> Not much they can do to her in X I think you really underestimate the power of smear/ blackmail campaigns and how effectively they have worked in the last century for the intelligence services. This has nothing to do with upholding the law.

> you really underestimate the power of smear ... campaigns

Not much they can do really. Elbakyan is a Stalinist who thinks the mass killer was a saint sent by God. She discredits herself at interviews and on her personal web-site just fine. None of that matters. People are using sci-hub because it's useful, crazyness of its author is irrelevant.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by arp242 »

scarygliders wrote: post #79
toomuchtodo wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does using DNS over HTTPS avoid this block? Edit: Thank you for the replies.

Nope. Just tried. Hard redirect to http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/?JNI_URL=sci-hub.st/&JNI_R...

The URL contains "JNI_DSTIP=186.2.163.201&JNI_DSTPORT=80"; so maybe they're intercepting connections to this IP? Does explicitly adding https:// work?

Otherwise there's always Opera where you can just click the "VPN" button.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by arp242 »

zozbot234 wrote: post #160
arp242 wrote: post #159

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That "hacker HOWTO" is horrible, and infused with ESR's ridiculous political ideas. I can think for myself; I don't need and certainly don't want a document which tells me what I should be like, especially not one written by some guy who is advocating for the literal execution of politicians by armed citizens.

> I can think for myself; I don't need and certainly don't want a document which tells me what I should be like That document is not meant for you ; it's meant to give prospective hackers an overview of the field. With respect to politics, the document explicitly says: > The hacker community has some specific, primarily defensive political interests — two of them are defending free-speech rights and fending off "inte…

That's even worse; hijacking a community to indoctrinate people on how they Ought To be™.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by periheli0n »

danuker wrote: post #110
guerrilla wrote: post #12

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He wasn't in Russia though, Snowden is in Russia.

Note to self: if I find myself in the crosshairs of the US government, move to Russia.

Not that Snowden leads an open and tremendously free live in Russia. At least that's not what it sounded like in his autobiography.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by o_p »

crazypython wrote: post #100

Finally, news about a hacker on Hacker News! If you are a hacker, you: - Mistrust authority - Promote decentralization - Share knowledge - Write open-source software - Maintain the infrastructure - Serve humanity - Are curious http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

Lets rename it to Wageslave News

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by periheli0n »

cblconfederate wrote: post #89

15-20 years and science still hasn't solved the publishing problem. Shameful, or a sign of times

Publishing is not the problem since we have the internet.

The problem is the botched science career system, how performance of academics/researchers is evaluated, how anybody beneath the tenured academic is exploited.

Publishing is just a decoy from this much larger problem.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

ehsankia wrote: post #149
Vinnl wrote: post #143

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No, scientists get paid (usually) by their institution. Often, they'll even have to pay to publish ("page charges", charges for illustrations, etc.), and also to make it openly accessible (although to be fair, at that point their works aren't sold anymore; the author's payment is the source of profit). Even established, tenured scientists will often need to obtain grants and will still be judged by where they publish…

> No, scientists get paid (usually) by their institution I didn't say they get paid, I'm talking specifically amount the money flow to these journals. Does the funding from the research/scientists come from the profit the journals make, or from outside funding?

Usually grants or other funding sources: journals generally don’t pay for articles.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by arp242 »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #44
SirSourdough wrote: post #41

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I mean, that’s pretty much China’s position with regards to other countries IP as I understand it. There’s just a lot of power still held by the nations that do support a US-style approach to IP, so many countries have incentive not to ignore IP laws.

IIRC, even they have been forced to increase enforcement of western IP rights over the last decade, because US has been pressuring them to (back before Trump and the whole trade war thing). This is a generally applicable answer: IP rights hold power worldwide mostly because the no.1 country that wants them has military and economic dominance over most of the planet.

Chinese companies file a huge amount of patents at the US patent office; 20 years ago, when they didn't have many of their own patents, it didn't make much sense to enforce foreign patents in their own country. But now that China has its own large patent portfolio abroad, it makes a lot more sense to cooperate so they can enforce these patents, too.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by 8note »

ma2rten wrote: post #49
haxiomic wrote: post #26

Science Publisher Elsevier's reported profit margin is 38%, compared to Apple's 21% – there's lot of cash at stake for them and a big warchest to defend it For anyone looking to understand the background on the science publishing industry, how it ended up this way and why they will fight Sci-Hub so aggressively, I found this discussion really informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo&t=8s&ab_channel=..…

I'm wondering why it's only 38%. They charge a lot and mostly work with volunteers. It should not cost 62% of what they charge to run a website to host some pdfs.

Likely some other company in the Cayman islands owns their intellectual property, and they they pay a good portion of their revenue to license it.

Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

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Post by xNeil »

krumbie wrote: post #90
vaylian wrote: post #42

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You are completely right that the current system is nonsense. It only exists, because back in the day there was no internet. Scientists needed publishers that would print and distribute scientific results. But publishers might deny publication in their journals if they thought the science is not good enough. Thereby the publishers established a reputation system. For example, it is really hard to get a scientific pap…

And this is why it's hard for newcomers to switch to open access journals. Because they cannot easily afford not to have well known journals in their publication list when applying for positions. Because the people in charge probably don't fully understand the applicant's research, but they think they get a good sense of quality by the names of the journals

So if I understood correctly, it's more about using the name of the journal as a verification of the study the scientist is doing, since the person funding them probably won't understand the research. Am I right?
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