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>>>because it's a rare case when a person of very questionable moral values (I believe most people here would find her behaviour and views reprehensible) What
by syshum 8y ago
>>>because it's a rare case when a person of very questionable moral values (I believe most people here would find her behaviour and views reprehensible)
What behaviour? Blocking Russian IP's or releasing data to all?
I find the blocking of Russian IP's to be petty, which I believe she backed down from but then had the ISP in Russia start banning the site.
I dont think it raised to "reprehensible"
Now if you mean ignoring Copyright law, and releasing copyrighted works to the world, I do not find that in anyway reprehensible, I am universally anti-copyright and do not believe it should exist at all
- vixen99 8y agoNot a tenable position unless you qualify it. It amounts to saying here should be no protection for those whose work output just happens to consist of copyable material?
- nicoburns 8y agoIt's not a position I agree with, but I think it is tenable. A lit of good could come from allowing everything to be freely copied.
- syshum 8y agoThe Surprising History of Copyright ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhBpI13dxkI ) Would you like to know more https://questioncopyright.org/promise https://questioncopyright.org/promise https://questioncopyright.org/learn https://questioncopyright.org/learn
- Fins 8y agoBlocking Russian scientists' access is pretty small example Elbakyan being reprehensible, regardless of whether Sci-Hub is or isn't a good thing. From all that's known about her, including her own chest-beating, she's a genuinely bad person, and her motivations have nothing to do with the "good of humankind".