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Does anyone have a complete copy? The seeds are very slow. I know someone willing to pay for this data. Shoot me an email.
The _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?
If we all got to seeding, surely we’d have the oppressors bent over a filthy toilet in no time at all.
Until the cops kick your door in on copyright infringement charges to "make an example" of someone. Don't think it can't happen.
Not being in a scientific field, one of the previous times this came up I asked if any of the working scientists felt like SciHub had positively impacted their work: exposing them to more papers than they would have read, guiding them in different ways, etc. and the answer was a pretty overwhelming "ohmygodyes". From the outside, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a public good. It certainly seems like l…
I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
Not being in a scientific field, one of the previous times this came up I asked if any of the working scientists felt like SciHub had positively impacted their work: exposing them to more papers than they would have read, guiding them in different ways, etc. and the answer was a pretty overwhelming "ohmygodyes". From the outside, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a public good. It certainly seems like l…
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Until the cops kick your door in on copyright infringement charges to "make an example" of someone. Don't think it can't happen.
Safety in numbers is a thing.
Not being in a scientific field, one of the previous times this came up I asked if any of the working scientists felt like SciHub had positively impacted their work: exposing them to more papers than they would have read, guiding them in different ways, etc. and the answer was a pretty overwhelming "ohmygodyes". From the outside, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a public good. It certainly seems like l…
As an undergraduate in the UK whose university doesn’t have the greatest subscription collection, Sci-Hub has literally enabled me to write my dissertation as there is no way I could have afforded the individual cost of the papers I’ve needed to reference. I can only imagine what it is like in poorer parts of the world in terms of access to subscriptions, or lack thereof.
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