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To be clear, I don't particularly believe that the founder(s) of scihub are the ones purchasing hacked credentials nor do they really know or condone that they
by dylz 7y ago
To be clear, I don't particularly believe that the founder(s) of scihub are the ones purchasing hacked credentials nor do they really know or condone that they are. However I do expect that quite a lot of the ones in use for scraping are hacked credentials, maybe from people wanting to "help out" purchasing them as an easy to access method instead of putting their own graduation at risk, etc.
- nyolfen 7y agoi suppose it's possible but it seems unlikely to me. i've never heard of anyone being disciplined or expelled for this, and in fact this link is the first time i've ever seen any indication that a publisher has tried taking active measures against people exporting content (as opposed to going after sci-hub itself)
- dylz 7y agoI see things where PDFs are watermarked with their school email and IP - would you consider that active or passive?
- nyolfen 7y agoseems passive to me unless they are actually going after students etc or encouraging the schools to. what i was trying to say was that there is little personal risk to sharing files with SH, or was until this IP blocking was added to the mix
- ryanlol 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz