Is Alexandra Elbakyan in real trouble this time?

Post by jazzyjackson » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #40

breck wrote: post #35

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We need to start organizing and go on the offensive: abolish copyright and patents through a constitutional amendment— http://www.breckyunits.com/the-intellectual-freedom-amendmen... If you’re wondering how to get the public to support it, we need to start spreading the truth. The opioid crisis kicked off by Purdue? Wouldn’t have happened without USPTO. Big tech monopolists? They get their monopoly power from IS laws…

Linking to your own website is fine and all, but not exactly a reference. And it’s hilariously short sighted. Without patent and copywrite protections, you’ll instantly see innovation come out of places where people are paid for their work. US offloading it’s manufacturing in a short sighted move to cheap labor and head-in-sand environmental outlook - sure, let’s kill the design industries too now too. There is a pro…

Post by ummonk » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Jsone wrote: post #6

The article is blocked behind a subscription prompt for me, but it's implemented in a silly way that's trivially by-passable. It's just some js code that checks if you've scrolled past a limit and scrolls you back to the top if so. Anything that removes js from the content defeats it, including Firefox's built-in Reader View.

Post by leephillips » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

asteroidbelt wrote: post #27

leephillips wrote: post #12

Ms. Elbakyan attacked me rather hysterically on Twitter when she learned of an article¹ on my site that describes several methods to acquire free copies of scientific articles, including Sci-Hub. I tried to get her to tell me why she thought it was terrible of me to mention any non-Sci-Hub pathways, but her replies made less sense with each iteration. So I think that Sci-Hub has been a valuable resource, but I have c…

> Ms. Elbakyan attacked me rather hysterically on Twitter Interestingly you have shared a link to your article, but not to the Twitter thread you referenced. Which raises suspicions about you telling the truth and the full truth. > but I have concerns about its stability Just set up a mirror then.

Post by jazzyjackson » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 10:36 PM UTC

martin1975 wrote: post #34

mrtksn wrote: post #24

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I think persistence will win this one because the moral dilemma is pretty weak here. Unlike with the software and arts, we don’t need to seek a funding model for the researchers when we take their work for free. It’s my impression that it’s a matter of adaptation before the free access becomes the norm. Therefore technical help and civil disobedience should eventually do the job. In this case, we are stealing from th…

free is a flawed concept - energy and time went into publishing each paper meaning someone paid. If the authors want to give permission, then she ought to seek it for each paper she's put on her website or seek permission from whomever owns the copyright. Otherwise it's theft. And no amount of civil disobedience can justify theft.

Post by enriquto » Sun, Jul 04, 2021, 10:37 PM UTC

smt88 wrote: post #75

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I think if you are a researcher, you should publish directly on sci-hub (is that even possible?) Make sci-hub the greatest and most prestigious scientific publication

This would be wonderfully altruistic, but it would be career suicide as well.