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I can't imagine some working on banning sci hub and thinking it's "a good thing".

• yoz-y 6y ago
  Why? For somebody not familiar with how research publishing works it might just look like xeroxing books.
  • mam2 6y ago
    > somebody not familiar with how research publishing Yeah and not able to use google about his own work.. The debate is pretty clearly explained everywhere. That said I have, more controversially, the same opinion about movie piracy. In general don't understand how you can feel good defending Goliath vs David. (The cinema industry never earnt so much money so far, at least pre-covid).
  • TeMPOraL 6y ago
    Ironically, xeroxing books is a pretty similar case, in that it's commonly done to school and university textbooks, because publishers are running similar rackets. It's hard to ethically justify fighting that either.
    • yoz-y 6y ago
      It might be. At my university all material was made by the profs at the school and distributed for free. But I've heard of schools where teachers force students to buy the books they have themselves written. My point wasn't that xeroxing books is good or bad, just that coming up with arguments against it is easy and so is for research paper piracy. Having worked for a while in research, I absolutely condone what sci-hub does and used it many times.