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> That pirate bay and scihub are still around, that their authors are walking around freely Let's not equate these sites. scihub gives people what they are lik
by d0mine 6y ago
> That pirate bay and scihub are still around, that their authors are walking around freely
Let's not equate these sites. scihub gives people what they are likely already paid for. Academic publishing business is a fraud. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PriwCi6SzLo (recent video on the topic that I liked)
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- kortilla 6y ago> scihub gives people what they are likely already paid for No, as long as the researcher was not bound by the grant to publish in the open and published in a journal/conference with a copyright, you do not have the legal right to get it, even if taxpayers funded the research. It’s fucked that the law doesn’t stipulate open publications for taxpayer funded research, but that’s an issue with the law. Academic publishing isn’t a “fraud” in the normal definition.
- _0ffh 6y agoYou're countering what I perceive to be moral argument with a legal one, which would be a category error.
- MauranKilom 6y agoYet whether the authors walk freely is entirely a legal issue, not a moral one.
- kortilla 6y ago“Fraud”