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by librvf 11y ago
It's a one-dimensional argument that relies heavily on rhetoric. It's hard to draw any practical conclusions from such an argument. The point is mostly just to persuade you that file-sharing is good and anyone who opposes file-s
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by librvf 11y ago
Well, I read the article, and the author's point about a library being for knowledge-sharing is misleading and possibly even dishonest. It's over-emphasized and ignores other important realities about how and why a library works
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by librvf 11y ago
Yes, it is different. It differs in efficiency. Not an irrelevant difference. A public library is funded and maintained by the same community that uses it. The manual processes required to consume the material are a natural check in th
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by librvf 11y ago
Perhaps. I think it's equally likely the story is low-effort clickbait that's fooled over 200 readers at Hacker News.
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by librvf 11y ago
And yet, the article has 200+ upvotes and the top-rated comment thread completely accepts the frame of the article and its assumptions.
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by librvf 11y ago
I don't think we disagree very much about the likely level of subject-specific due diligence these publishers will do Which publishers? If this is a real problem, there might be real solutions but those won't be found if we are
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by librvf 11y ago
> I've been contacted on Facebook by these scam publishers Which publishers? If they are scams they should be exposed. The linked article included no verifiable details.
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by librvf 11y ago
I agree, the original article doesn't hold up well under scrutiny. Anonymous source and no verifiable, relevant facts-- even facts that should be easy to obtain.
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by librvf 11y ago
> This article could easily be expanded to include software developers as well as academics companies like Apress Your 1-paragraph HN comment has more verifiable (relevant) facts than the entire article linked. The article doesn'
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by librvf 11y ago
These may sound like stories of concern to academics alone. But the problem is this: much of the time that goes into writing these books is made possible through taxpayers’ money. And who buys these books? Well, university libraries – and