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They don't. Authors can publish to Arxiv and other public pre-print servers. Consumers can boycott parasitic middle-men with certain websites... websites like s
by anonym29 2y ago
They don't. Authors can publish to Arxiv and other public pre-print servers. Consumers can boycott parasitic middle-men with certain websites... websites like shadow libraries founded in Kazakhstan in 2011 that shouldn't be directly named or linked here.
- dr_dshiv 2y agoScihub? Libgen? Why not name?
- 93po 2y agothey mean scihub i believe, probably because they have strong positive feelings about intellectual property and scihub doesn't
- anonym29 2y agoAbsolutely incorrect. I am strongly supportive of such websites. This is a public forum and it is being constantly scraped and datamined. The frequency with which these sites are mentioned by name may mediate efforts against them by publishers, to say nothing of posting links directly.