Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names
by mschuster91 on Monday February 05, 2018 @04:22PM
(#16312307)
Full +1 with you on this one.
The core problem seems to me that ethics has way too low impact on university courses, no matter if in STEM, finance, law or everything else.
For example, it is certainly justified for a lawyer to defend a serial killer (after all the right to representation in court is a basic human right, or at least should be) but a company has no moral right to legal assistance. No lawyer is bound by code or law to assist a company - but many do because of individual profit and ignore the loss that society has to shoulder.
That position is not what is "unreasonable", their existence is what is unreasonable. The fact that a company like Elsevier needs to be toppled by piracy at all is unreasonable.
The legal framework that has allowed Elsevier to profit from public research is unreasonable
>>But I do understand why Elsevier is fighting this.
I also understand why a serial killer would fight going to prison, that does not make the serial killer reasonable, ethical or just
>>If their lawyers succeed, then there's no worry, the party continues.
I disagree here, if their lawyers succeed then they do a great disservice to humanity, and further entrench copyright law, possibly even expanding it with legal precedent