Scientific community in India rallies around Sci-Hub's legal challenge to big publishing companies Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 06:13:44 No. 662525
Sci-Hub is a popular pirate website hosting scientific papers.¹ The site's creator, Alexandra Elbakyan, has previously stated that she created the site because she had trouble accessing papers for her own research, and she noticed this was a problem for other researchers.²
She has said that her creation of the site was also inspired by communism.³ The site is rather popular in the third world (i.e. developing countries), such as India, China, Russia, and Iran, though there are many in the United States who also access the site.¹
The site has met a legal challenge at the High Court of Delhi, in India. Major scientific publishers (Elsevier, the American Chemical Society, and Wiley) have sued the website.⁴ The site has met this sort of challenge before in other countries, such as the United States.²
In that case, Elbakyan did not even bother with a proper legal defense,⁴ instead informally arguing that the publishing companies themselves illegally violate the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights: specifically, the requirement that "everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits".²
However, this time something different appears to be happening. The scientific and academic community has seemingly rallied around Sci-Hub. A legal team offered her representation. They are looking to argue that Sci-Hub is legal under Indian copyright law, due to an exception allowing for republication for educational purposes. One of the top scientists in India among those who signed a petition in favor of Sci-Hub said that "apart from a small number of elite institutes in India, most cannot afford to subscribe [to journals]". According to
Nature , other petitions have been signed by "medical doctors and policy advisers who use scientific papers as part of their work".⁴
[1].
Science , 28 April 2016.
https://archive.today/iiyoj [2]. TorrentFreak, 27 June 2015.
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-tears-down-academias-illegal-copyright-paywalls-150627/ [3]. Brown Political Review, 16 April 2021.
https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2021/04/fighting-for-communism-in-science-bpr-interviews-alexandra-elbakyan/ [4].
Nature , 13 December 2021.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03659-0 Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 06:20:21 No. 662531
Also, the site was censored on Twitter early this year:
https://archive.today/2sazc More recently, they evaded the ban and had a Christmas theme on their site.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 06:31:01 No. 662536
>>662533 Something else from that Nature article: there is a precedent for the legal case being made. There was a school that was IRL pirating a lot of textbooks for poor students, they won a court case against publishers over it since it was for education.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 06:59:46 No. 662546
>>662525 I'm in the mood to get off my ass and do something productive for once. Any tips for how a random Angloid with an internet connection can help Sci-Hub out?
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 07:06:35 No. 662547
Sci-hub helps a lot of ordinary people, i use it a lot and always have to research psychology stuff and medications. Amazing project.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 07:13:13 No. 662551
This is sorta part of a wider inequality within the Global South, where technology, patents and papers are locked out of their access. And that’s a huge reason why they can’t industrialise in a green and sustainable manner even if they wanted to because they don’t have access to the technology to do so. Sad part is the researchers themselves aren’t even withholding this, it is the journals themselves.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 07:18:03 No. 662553
>>662551 >People shit on Corbyn for being a succdem and shit, but he is forever based to me for proposing green technology transfer to the Commonwealth nations as some form of reparations. Where did you read that? I can't find anything about it, though it does sound like a good idea.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 07:41:14 No. 662571
>>662553 >>662553 https://labour.org.uk/press/john-mcdonnell-speech-economy-labours-plans-sustainable-investment/ His shadow chancellor mentioned it in a speech. It was included in the 2019 manifesto but in very vague terms though.
This may go some way in addressing – if not redressing – historic injustices.
In two weeks I’ll be convening an International Social Forum where we will be discussing this with activists, economists and environmentalists and others from across the world.
The aim is for the Social Forum to be the launch of a dialogue over the next 12 months leading to a programme of reform of our global economic policy making architecture to address climate change.
As always, I am completely open about our plans as we prepare for government.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 07:49:52 No. 662579
>>662571 >So we will ensure that the technologies developed here in our Green Industrial Revolution are made available free or cheap to the global south. >This may go some way in addressing – if not redressing – historic injustices. based
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 08:35:44 No. 662625
How might we best support anti-copyright and open source shit on a wider political basis?
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 09:23:57 No. 662656
>>662625 Systemic murder of any lawyer upholding copyright
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 09:29:13 No. 662657
>>662531 >Snowflake mode Is this a covert dogwhistle to altrightists?
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 09:50:57 No. 662663
>>662551 it's not just the global south, but anyone curious about any topic in science. imagine how many ideas never come to fruition because of this crap
>>662657 sometimes snow is just snow anon
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 10:56:17 No. 662680
>>662670 >cookie modal >paper not on sci-hub yet feelsbadman
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 11:26:55 No. 662705
>>662680 try sticking it through archive.today, it's open access after all
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 14:57:19 No. 662852
>>662680 PLOS is an open journal, anyone can access articles over it so there's no need to stick its articles on sci-hub.
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 18:27:29 No. 663089
>>662852 I just instinctively presume every cookiesoy website is paywalled. guess I'll have to check it out later. gotta go be social
Anonymous 2021-12-27 (Mon) 20:01:23 No. 663184
>>663089 a lot of sites that need cookies aren't.
you can variously try archive.today, outline.com, web.archive.org, temporary new cookie sessions for limited free articles ad infinitum (incognito or sessionbox will do), and 12ft.io to BTFO paywalls though. usually at least one of these works
Anonymous 2021-12-28 (Tue) 03:08:30 No. 663611
>>663606 i do this and look like this
Anonymous 2021-12-28 (Tue) 04:59:56 No. 663707
>>663611 What the hell is this meme? I briefly saw an animu image associated with it but I have since lost it. I must say it is a fine meme and I also do this and look like this
Anonymous 2021-12-28 (Tue) 05:05:24 No. 663715
>>663707 Actually wait it was "you look like this" and a really uncanny animu girl pointing to a peice of paper. There was also "you're this one, and this one is me see" and it was an animu girl pointing to a virgin vs chad meme. I must discover this meme once more…
Anonymous 2021-12-28 (Tue) 12:12:39 No. 663928
>>662525 lmao, based India
Anonymous 2021-12-29 (Wed) 09:08:23 No. 665361
>>664839 birds of a feather..
good job anon
Anonymous 2021-12-29 (Wed) 16:24:50 No. 665739
>>662680 I just clicked the download PDF and got this. There was no warning about cookies or anything like that
probably because of uMatrix blocking third-party scripts? .
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 08:33:34 No. 666602
Very based indeed. All publishers must go bankrupt.
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 10:47:20 No. 666659
>>662579 >>So we will ensure that the technologies developed here in our Green Industrial Revolution are made available free or cheap to the global south. >>This may go some way in addressing – if not redressing – historic injustices. >based Good. Because then it should become a state of no-excues for the Global South, no? They've got all the knowledge they wanted or didn't even knew they wanted. So what's holding them back. A lack of foregin aid? XD
>>662656 >power fantasies A hallmark of the powerless, yes. Just remember, don't try to use a telescope baton in a street fight. It just don't werks! XD
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 12:48:06 No. 666736
Is intellectual """""""""property""""""""""" the greatest spook of them all?
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 13:15:07 No. 666769
>>666724 it often takes sci-hub a while to grab papers. I think they have a script that checks the webserver's logs and uses that to instruct their spiders
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 14:14:53 No. 666810
>>663946 >yall gay cringe my friend
scihub looks cool though
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 15:26:49 No. 666870
>>666724 I think that is a mirror site.
https://sci-hub.se/10.1371/journal.pone.0127502 It is a bit interesting that Sci-Hub currently uses a Swedish domain, it goes to show that the Swedes remain lenient towards piracy as they were known for in the past.
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 18:19:27 No. 667069
>>666934 WTF is that block screen
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 21:11:31 No. 667233
>>667069 it's a variant of
http://elsevier.bahnhof.se/ which is what they redirected people to in response to being sued by elsevier
I actually emailed the CEO of Bahnhof and suggested they should do something like this but for SVT, Viaplay, Netflix etc due to them supporting shit like this. he declined. then a few years later they did pic related
if Swedish ISPs had any amount of solidarity they would band together and block every single one of these disservices
Anonymous 2021-12-30 (Thu) 21:57:47 No. 667285
Sci-Hub is the only means for some professionals to get access to what they need and same goes for people trying to get info they need for themselves or friends and family.
In case some of you don't know there also is a site for browsing through Sci-Hub papers without downloading them. Unfortunately you cant put in the DOI you have to search by search terms and filters.
https://cyberleninka.org/ Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 08:41:33 No. 679425
>>679412 ey pone
why is dat russian guy creepin on da girl
Anonymous 2022-01-07 (Fri) 11:33:55 No. 679568
>>678626 the absolute madlass
>>679412 cursed
Anonymous 2022-01-09 (Sun) 16:30:44 No. 683484
>>662667 Congrats to the Kazakhs on their pay rise
How's she doing over there?
junko !!9cfznBf./Q 2022-01-09 (Sun) 19:11:10 No. 683670
>>683484 she lives in Russia
junko !!9cfznBf./Q 2022-01-11 (Tue) 07:26:24 No. 686467
>>686447 there is some general information at
>>>/edu/9298 but a lot of it isn't piracy-related
Anonymous 2022-01-11 (Tue) 09:04:17 No. 686531
>>662657 Not everything revolves aroung anglosphere and it's retarded discourse, anon.
Anonymous 2022-01-13 (Thu) 01:41:04 No. 689086
>>689081 Are you just now learning of the existence of pay-to-play fake journals?
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