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It is the photo of a person with long dark hair, colourful shirt, and wearing a pirate hat. To their left, the logo of Sci-hub. To their right, that of The Pirate Bay. Over the image float several sentences in white with black border:
knowledge belongs to humanity THEY DON’T EVEN PAY THE PEER REVIEWERS piracy of academic material is morally good and justified your taxes fund this research be gay do crime it’s your to take if you want
The disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.
Sharing software is a tool to achieve that end.
As an academic, yes, please pirate stuff.
Fuck parasites publishers that make profit on our unpaid job and gatekeep knowledge.
A nice read about publishers profits: Against Parasite Publishers: Making Journals Free or if someone prefer the newspaper format
Publishing shouldn't even be an industry in 2025.
Or 2024... 2023... etc etc.
Man this generation sucks.
Like Narcissistic Vampires.
As a researcher I always make sure that there is at least a preprint available for download, and always try to publish my research in open access journals (which is much more expensive).
I will be glad if someone pirate my papers, it is a corrupt system in many ways.
This is the way.
In some areas of theory, all the cool stuff happens on https://arxiv.org/ months before they end up being officially published and "paywalled".
And in my area (theoretical computer science) we mostly publish short versions in conferences and put the full versions with proofs on arxiv. Of course everyone is downloading and using the latter. The rest is just for the "metrics".
Don't even have to do crime. You can usually email the author, and they will send you a copy, quite legitimately.
I've done it myself a few times.
That kind of work flow is ok if you have good access to subscriptions but need one obscure paper. Its not an efficient or reliable work flow for many and largely excludes older papers.
It also rarely works for any paper/article older than 20 years.
Heck, my sister's asked me to get papers she's co-authored off of scihub for her, and those have been published within the last 10 years
It's not a one-size fits all, that's for sure. But I have no subscriptions to anything, and I wouldn't describe anything I do with "work flow."
I see you never learned the dark art of Mail Merge!
And if you don't want to be gay, be a straight criminal and pirate all the science
Being gay is totally optional, but recommended lmao
fuck yea crime is bad ass but I can't load the picture here i have no idea what this post Is about
It is the photo of a person with long dark hair, colourful shirt, and wearing a pirate hat. To their left, the logo of Sci-hub. To their right, that of The Pirate Bay. Over the image float several sentences in white with black border:
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thank you senior alt text
I gotcha ;) You’re welcome!
I added your alt text, thanks.
My pleasure!
I get to be gay while doing crimes? Hell yeah
win win situation