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[–]Kuasocto 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't like this whole "academics" term. Anyone and everyone is a scientist if he chooses to investigate something and conduct some experiments or research. And sci-hub has been the only option for all people outside of unis for forever now.

like, imagine NOT using scihub. I bet even university "researchers" in Russia have been using it for years now. the paywalls to articles are absolute bullshit that gatekeep research in the worst way possible. when you research something you go through hundreds of sources, skimming most of them to see if they have any relevant information for your topic. putting a 20-100$ paywall for it is retarded. It means a researcher is expected to pay that much money just for the ability to see if the article would even be useful for him. And what if it ends up useless? you've just spent a ton of money to look at some text for a couple of minutes that you won't even ever use. digital "goods" can be copied at no cost, putting barriers to that is absolute idiocy. They cost next to nothing to host, next to nothing to copy and share, no one loses anything when they're copied. digital IS NOT like print media, there is literally NOTHING to steal as stealing is straight up impossible. you can only copy. so for fucks sake allow easy copying instead of this "copyright" and "intellectual property" bullshit!