#SciHub #Elbakyan #Piracy #Science

So, I've kinda known about Sci-Hub for a long time, but never really looked at it before today.

https://mastodon.social/@tolton/110794595850998598

Sci-Hub is the Pirate Bay of scientific research papers, providing free (illegal) access to over 95% of the world's paywalled, restricted-access scientific papers and studies.

It was created (over a decade ago) and is still run today, by Alexandra Elbakyan. She is a criminal today, owing millions of $$$ for copyright-infringement-like stuff.

IDK her situation today, nor the site's, but if this site ever gets taken down, it would be catastrophic.

I'm going to learn how to use Sci-Hub (looks simple, like any other torrent site, I think), start downloading stuff and ... most importantly, how I can help, start reseeding (re-uploading) stuff, donating, etc.

Gizmodo: Salute the Black Flag: Sci-Hub Pirate Captain Receives EFF Award for Sticking It to the Man https://gizmodo.com/sci-hub-pirate-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-1850686878 #electronicfrontierfoundation #americanchemicalsociety #usdepartmentofjustice #academicpublishing #alexandraelbakyan #transhumanists #shadowlibrary #williamgibson #francisdrake #jonjohnssen #openaccess #cindycohn #elsevier #elbakyan #scihub

Gizmodo: Salute the Black Flag: Sci-Hub Pirate Captain Receives EFF Award for Sticking It to the Man https://gizmodo.com/sci-hub-pirate-elbakyan-receives-eff-award-1850686878 #electronicfrontierfoundation #americanchemicalsociety #usdepartmentofjustice #academicpublishing #alexandraelbakyan #transhumanists #shadowlibrary #williamgibson #francisdrake #openaccess #elsevier #elbakyan #paywall #scihub

how to #dedrm rented books? #nodrm + leseratte doesn't work because it's hard-coded not to. #nodrm #calibre #ebooks #scihub #elbakyan #zlibrary #science #tech #foss #free #opensource

#OpenScience : Great interview of Alexandra #Elbakyan mainly about #SciHub « The project is being hit by lawsuits, described as illegal or unlawful, and blocked. The lawsuits come from big corporations, the academic publishers : Elsevier and others. These corporations today are the owners of #science. They set a high price tag to access research journals. Millions of people cannot afford it and are blocked from science and from information. » https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/binaire/alexandra-elbakyan-a-great-lady-for-a-great-project/

Prima vennero a prendere i pirati russi...
La fondatrice di #SciHub Alexandra #Elbakyan afferma che, a seguito di un procedimento legale, la #FBI ha ottenuto l'accesso ai dati nel suo account #Google.
La stessa Google l'ha informata del rilascio dei dati questa settimana, rilevando che a causa di un'ingiunzione del tribunale, la società non è stata autorizzata a informarla prima.
https://torrentfreak.com/fbi-gains-access-to-sci-hub-founders-google-account-data-220303/

La fondatrice di #SciHub, Alexandra #Elbakyan, ha lanciato una campagna di donazioni per garantire il funzionamento e lo sviluppo della popolare piattaforma di ricerca accademica. Per motivi di sicurezza, le donazioni possono essere effettuate solo in #criptovalute, ma gli impegni prevedono #opensource nel progetto e l'introduzione di #AI
Di Andy #Maxwell su #TorrentFreak
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-pledges-open-source-ai-alongside-crypto-donation-drive-210809/