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Looking backwards, rather than forwards, the people best placed to do something about what has already happened are "The Pirate Bay". Surely it couldn't be too
by anon_tpb 15y ago
Looking backwards, rather than forwards, the people best placed to do something about what has already happened are "The Pirate Bay". Surely it couldn't be too hard to obtain copies of all the papers to date and put them online?
Another option might be for researchers to post screenshots of every paper read to Freenet. Over time, the collection would build into something useful.
Does software exist to strip stenography and DRM out of documents? Maybe reduce it to ASCII or TeX, then do a brand new reformat?
- slowpoke 15y agoSomething related happened a few months ago. A heap of old papers which have long since entered the public domain, but where locked behind paywalls, were leaked. There's a statement accompanying the torrent[1], speaking up against the outrage that is the academic publishing system. It's still quite well seeded, me being among the people who spare bandwidth for it. [1]: https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosophical_Transactions_of_the_Royal_Society__fro https://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6554331/Papers_from_Philosop...
- brazzy 15y ago"Surely it couldn't be too hard to obtain copies of all the papers to date and put them online?" Except that would not help at all with the underlying problem. Scientists need the articles to be easily accessible, up-to-date and citable. The science publishers' monopoly is not so much on content as it is on prestige.