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Given the lengths that Aaron Swartz was willing to go to liberate JSTOR journals, I would assume that there is a decent number of people who are willing to prov

Given the lengths that Aaron Swartz was willing to go to liberate JSTOR journals, I would assume that there is a decent number of people who are willing to provide access to Scihub voluntarily. There's clearly a culture in universities that isn't too fond of these publishers.

ryanlol 7y ago
I just can’t understand why you’d want to go through that trouble when the internet is full of the credentials you need. Scihub obviously isn’t concerned with the law, there’s no reason for them to make this any harder than they need to. Putting people at risk by letting them donate their personal access would just be silly.
- enriquto 7y ago
  Are you a professor? We professors are adults and can chose what to do. I, for one, am glad to take such "risks" publicly on behalf of Alexandra Elbakyan. Scihub is the modern Alexandria library and I don't want to let the bastards burn it down again.
  - ryanlol 7y ago
    Look if you’d rather do that than buy credentials online for a dollar or two then you’re just being unreasonable, professor or not. I’m not a professor, I’m just familiar with ezproxy admins dealing with these issues.
    - enriquto 7y ago
      > Look if you’d rather do that than buy credentials online for a dollar or two then you’re just being unreasonable Individual solutions to collective problems are immoral in my belief system. Thanks for your messages, though! they motivated me to donate 50 EUR to scihub. Even the smallest donation counts!
      - ryanlol 7y ago
        >Individual solutions to collective problems are immoral in my belief system But buying credentials for a dollar or two to supply sci-hub solves the problem for the collective. >Thanks for your messages, though! they motivated me to donate 50 EUR to scihub. Even the smallest donation counts! Where’d you do this? I’d love to donate too. I don’t think sci-hub has been soliciting donations lately. E: I guess I found it: http://www.sci-hub.tw/donate http://www.sci-hub.tw/donate I wonder if scihub.org is making lots of money from people trying to donate to sci-hub.

ryanlol 7y ago

I just can’t understand why you’d want to go through that trouble when the internet is full of the credentials you need. Scihub obviously isn’t concerned with the law, there’s no reason for them to make this any harder than they need to. Putting people at risk by letting them donate their personal access would just be silly.

enriquto 7y ago
Are you a professor? We professors are adults and can chose what to do. I, for one, am glad to take such "risks" publicly on behalf of Alexandra Elbakyan. Scihub is the modern Alexandria library and I don't want to let the bastards burn it down again.
- ryanlol 7y ago
  Look if you’d rather do that than buy credentials online for a dollar or two then you’re just being unreasonable, professor or not. I’m not a professor, I’m just familiar with ezproxy admins dealing with these issues.
  - enriquto 7y ago
    > Look if you’d rather do that than buy credentials online for a dollar or two then you’re just being unreasonable Individual solutions to collective problems are immoral in my belief system. Thanks for your messages, though! they motivated me to donate 50 EUR to scihub. Even the smallest donation counts!
    - ryanlol 7y ago
      >Individual solutions to collective problems are immoral in my belief system But buying credentials for a dollar or two to supply sci-hub solves the problem for the collective. >Thanks for your messages, though! they motivated me to donate 50 EUR to scihub. Even the smallest donation counts! Where’d you do this? I’d love to donate too. I don’t think sci-hub has been soliciting donations lately. E: I guess I found it: http://www.sci-hub.tw/donate http://www.sci-hub.tw/donate I wonder if scihub.org is making lots of money from people trying to donate to sci-hub.