I imagine Kazakhstan will be less than cooperative with similar requests. Though I'd be terrified to travel if I were her now.
FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
> This has nothing to do with upholding the law. It had everything to do with New Zealand politicians trying to impress the powerful. It’s was embarrassing. Said as a New Zealander.
It definity made New Zealand look like a place where the rule law doesn't necessarily apply fairly. Ironically the rule of law would prevent the US from doing the same thing if New Zealand made a similiar request.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> and prohibiting search engines and domain name registries from "facilitating access" to Sci-Hub. I just searched for "sci-hub" on DDG, Google and Bing, and the sci-hub.st or sci-hub.se domain was the top result on each. I wonder what happened to the prohibition.
Here in the UK the main sci-hub domains are blocked at the ISP level. We're a very censorous country.
Does using DNS over HTTPS avoid this block?
Edit: Thank you for the replies.
Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
#64Your tax dollar at work.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
She lives in Russia and attends some local events. There is no reason to hide if you don’t travel outside of Russia.
I know Russia has no extradition treaty with the US, but do they never extradite for any reason? Hmm, from what I'm reading on Quora "The Russian Constitution protects its own citizens from extradition to a foreign country." Interesting, I didn't know that.
According to Wikipedia she's a Kazakhstani citizen, not Russian.
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#66“What Happens on your iPhone, Stays on your iPhone” - they said https://i.imgur.com/Dfk34yM.jpg
it does. Unless you tell your iPhone to send everything you have to Amazon, or Dropbox, or iCloud, or Google, or Facebook, or Backblaze, or [insert cloud service subject to Chinese, EU, or US law here].
or iCloud
Re: FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder
#67Where can I file for my damages as a reviewer? I have lost more than 2000 hours reviewing papers for for-profit publishers and they never gave me a single penny.
edit: Heck many of them they did not even give me free access to their journal to check references from the papers I was reviewing for them. I had to rely on SciHub to do so.
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#68Given the provenance of most (all?) of the material on Sci-Hub, the copyright issues here seem laughable to me. Fruitless speculation about the FBI aside, you do have to wonder about the future of IP generally in the world. There's a sort of evolutionary pressure going on right now between different countries' approach to the matter and I can't say that the US-style rules will hold (or more realistically, be imposed)…
It seems so absolutely obvious that a jurisdiction adopting a "there is no such thing as IP" approach will have a huge advantage. What's the reason this hasn't happened?
The original purpose of copyright was to encourage people to create works. The theory being that of others can simply copy something where is the incentive to do it at all.
IMHO, there’s something in that for some classes of works, so I don’t think no-IP is a good idea universally. It’s certainly questionably for scientific papers though.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
She lives in Russia and attends some local events. There is no reason to hide if you don’t travel outside of Russia.
I know Russia has no extradition treaty with the US, but do they never extradite for any reason? Hmm, from what I'm reading on Quora "The Russian Constitution protects its own citizens from extradition to a foreign country." Interesting, I didn't know that.
Sounds offensive that one's compatriots could be given to another country to be put on trial.
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#70I'm not sure I understand the concept of paid access to scientific research, so I'd be grateful if someone with more knowledge of the topic could explain it to me. Governments fund universities, people donate large amounts of money to universities, and a large portion of the population has student debt because of how expensive tuition is. Why are they charging for access to research at these institutions then?
The universities aren't the ones collecting the money. In fact, they the main targets of the extortion. Most professors care mostly about prestige (reputation for being smart, wise or innovative) and would prefer to ignore or disdain the economic and legal aspects of life. OK, that is a little unfair: most profs want to focus on their specialty and sometimes don't pay enough attention to how their actions interact wi…
I can't speak for "most" professors, since I haven't done any kind of scientific survey. However, I work in academia, and every professor I personally know hates Elsevier, and wants to get away from them in any reasonable way.
But when the journals that literally define their field are monopolized by Elsevier, there's only so much they can do for the time being. To avoid them, they'd have to accept their research being ignored, their careers stagnating, and their ability to continue to do their jobs properly being threatened.