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Mendeley also snitches evidence of your SciHub habit to Elsevier. It probably won't amount to anything, but do you really want to bet against Elsevier becoming
by jjoonathan 8y ago
Mendeley also snitches evidence of your SciHub habit to Elsevier. It probably won't amount to anything, but do you really want to bet against Elsevier becoming exceptionally greedy, desperate, or both?
- aw3c2 8y agoPlease provide some citations for that claim.
- eythian 8y agoThey would, but they can't export them.
- SubiculumCode 8y agoI presume that the source of the file is in the metadata..it is often placed in references. Since those are uploaded to Mendeley in their cloud storage service, it would seem that thry have the data..now it comes down to eulas
- jjoonathan 8y agoIt uploads your PDFs to Elsevier servers for storage. By design. Asking how that could lead to Elsevier obtaining evidence of paper piracy is like asking how using gmail could lead to google using your email to do targeted advertising. You are giving them everything they need to do it, so of course they might do it! The position that needs defending is the supposition that they can't.
- aw3c2 8y agoThat is quite far fetched. You made it sound like they specifically identify and monitor sci-hub usage somehow.