In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015)

Post by einpoklum » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:44 PM UTC

nonrandomstring wrote: post #18

Each time this subject comes up I feel moved to repost this article [1]. The welfare of humanity, our species, no longer aligns with the "publishing industry". Brutal, radical reform is now necessary. [1] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/2048-informatio... (turn off js to view)

Post by themoonisachees » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 12:53 PM UTC

eccentricwind wrote: post #16

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #14

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i will try to explain my stand. 2005-12. a small "user" from india HAD 0 means to purchase online content. local content in the stores was the same expensive "imported" stuff and TV was the only main means of consuming content. then with internet, i could suddenly go to piratebay and watch any movie or read any book or download any game. talking about "buying using paypal and stuff", INDIANS STILL CANNOT EASILY BUY F…

It's basically "You didn't lose money because I pirated your product, I had no money to begin with". I can relate to this, coming from a poor background. I would've never be where I stand today If I didn't have access to the published material on the internet for free. Also, the prices of scientific papers are atrocious! And that's not even considering the fact that the researchers who wrote the paper and peer review…

Post by api » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #42

einpoklum wrote: post #41

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> Then came the Covid pandemic and “climate emergency”. What had been a friendly, ideological tussle about the digital rights of scientists versus profiteers took on a new tone. To call it “civil disobedience” would be to miss the point. Universities simply stopped playing the game – and the more progressive governments followed suit by deeming the enforcement of academic publishers’ copyright no longer in the public…

Companies like Moderna did dispense with IP restrictions around the vaccine, but it turns out that this was never a binding constraint in the first place. These vaccines must essentially be brewed via a biological process, not merely synthesized in a chemical lab like most pharmaceuticals. There's probably a whole lot of fuzzy know-how in this that's inherently hard to replicate, no matter what the legal environment…

Post by j33zusjuice » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 1:32 PM UTC

zozbot234 wrote: post #42

einpoklum wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Then came the Covid pandemic and “climate emergency”. What had been a friendly, ideological tussle about the digital rights of scientists versus profiteers took on a new tone. To call it “civil disobedience” would be to miss the point. Universities simply stopped playing the game – and the more progressive governments followed suit by deeming the enforcement of academic publishers’ copyright no longer in the public…

Companies like Moderna did dispense with IP restrictions around the vaccine, but it turns out that this was never a binding constraint in the first place. These vaccines must essentially be brewed via a biological process, not merely synthesized in a chemical lab like most pharmaceuticals. There's probably a whole lot of fuzzy know-how in this that's inherently hard to replicate, no matter what the legal environment…

Post by RupertEisenhart » Wed, Dec 07, 2022, 2:12 PM UTC

sampo wrote: post #32

RupertEisenhart wrote: post #9

This google search[0] will provide a list of interesting papers about piracy. They seem generally to support what I think is something like the majority consensus here: - piracy does some harm to sales, especially of new books, but can increase consumer knowledge and therefor increase diversity of sales and sales of older works: "effect of piracy is heterogeneous: piracy decreased the legitimate sales of ongoing comi…

> piracy does considerable harm to large institutes What do you mean by the word "institutes" here? First thing that comes to mind is academic and research institutes, but surely piracy doesn't harm them. So you must mean something else?