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SciHub piggybacks on the publishers' work. Stealing the output of a company and giving it away does not mean you can do their work for less.
by ikeboy 11y ago
SciHub piggybacks on the publishers' work. Stealing the output of a company and giving it away does not mean you can do their work for less.
- riscy 11y agoIt's the researcher who produced and typeset the article; the publisher does nothing more than hosting PDFs sent directly from the authors after they passed peer review, which is not something the publisher is involved with.
- ikeboy 11y agoThis is false. If all they did was host pdfs everyone would just use arxiv. See http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676 http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie... for a good overview of all the sides here.