[LINK] Sci-Hub ... pirated repository of academic papers

[Roger Clarke]

“Police warn students to avoid science website”
Sean CoughlanBBC News
20 Mar 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-56462390

> "Students should be aware that accessing such websites is illegal, as it hosts stolen intellectual property," said Det Insp Kevin Ives.

Interesting proposition.  I'd like to see his legal advice on that one.


> "If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether
it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know that Sci-Hub
will then use those details to compromise your university's computer
network in order to steal research papers," he said.

That's very effective advertising for Sci-Hub, given that students are
(or at least have historically been) anti-authoritarian, where 'police'
= the most prominent form of 'authoritarian' & students (and staff) gain
from having more capitalist-monopoly sources available to them.


Interestingly, in the many thousands of links to opened-source (i.e. not
necessarily open-source originally) I've provided in papers over the
last 25 years, I can hardly remember any on that site.


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