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Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked
(arstechnica.com)
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Knowledge wants to be free. One day our institutions will stop fighting it.
Random novels =/= knowledge.
I'm totally supporting sci-hub and it's quest for free access to academia, but contemporary books aren't on the same level. Writers deserve to be paid.
Classics are all in the public domain anyway.
Fiction writers deserve to be paid but not academic writers?
Or is it that science should be free but culture should be gate locked?
As it stands, they don't get paid when you pay for reading it anyways. They themselves pay to publish it to a journal, the journal then sells it to you.
The scientists aren't paid by people reading their science, they are paid by grants, for doing the science in the first place.
I wholeheartedly support academic "piracy", it only hurts the gatekeepers.