“As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “This Office is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights that enable creative and artistic expression, and holding individuals accountable for threatening those rights.”
College textbooks cost hundreds to thousands of dollars in the US. Without these websites, US American science and higher education will dissolve into ashes within one generation
LMAO so true. I have professors share obvious libgen or something PDF’s of books published ten years ago and they’ll play dumb and say that it’s public domain, if they’ll say anything.
@HaSch@blueberry Honestly I don’t know how I would’ve been able to do my thesis without sci-hub. Sure there’s the interlibrary loan system, but easily 95% of the papers I read turned out to be non-pertinent to what I was working on. Waiting days or weeks to even figure out whether I was searching for the right things would have seriously fucked up my planning and time management.
College textbooks cost hundreds to thousands of dollars in the US. Without these websites, US American science and higher education will dissolve into ashes within one generation
LMAO so true. I have professors share obvious libgen or something PDF’s of books published ten years ago and they’ll play dumb and say that it’s public domain, if they’ll say anything.
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@HaSch @blueberry Honestly I don’t know how I would’ve been able to do my thesis without sci-hub. Sure there’s the interlibrary loan system, but easily 95% of the papers I read turned out to be non-pertinent to what I was working on. Waiting days or weeks to even figure out whether I was searching for the right things would have seriously fucked up my planning and time management.