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The particular Sci-Hub trade-off is one that shouldn't worry you. If Pornhub are made responsible for user uploaded content it won't make any difference to Sci-
by pmyteh 4y ago
The particular Sci-Hub trade-off is one that shouldn't worry you. If Pornhub are made responsible for user uploaded content it won't make any difference to Sci-Hub because they're already flagrantly infringing. It's not a grey-zone user-upload operation, its express purpose is to "remov[e] barriers in the way of science" in defiance of copyright law. It's "black" Open Access (in the sense of the pirate flag) and not something within the reach of US regulators (otherwise it would already be toast).
- jeroenhd 4y agoPerhaps you're right, Scihub is a bad example as the service clearly breaks almost all known forms of copyright law (though it really shouldn't be, in my opinion, but that's just the publication industry having too much control).