News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and Elsevier. Parent comment

Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by jraph on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:00AM (#20633272)
I had a laugh reading this.

> Readers should note that, in many jurisdictions, use of Sci-Hub may constitute copyright infringement. Users of Sci-Hub do so at their own risk. This study is not an endorsement of using Sci-Hub, and its authors and publishers accept no responsibility on behalf of readers. There is a possibility that Sci-Hub users — especially those not using privacy-enhancing services such as Tor — could have their usage history unmasked and face legal or reputational consequences.

> Sci-Hub is currently served at domains including https://sci-hub.hk, https://sci-hub.la, https://sci-hub.mn, https://sci-hub.name, https://sci-hub.tv, and https://sci-hub.tw, as well as at scihub22266oqcxt.onion

"We are not telling you to use Sci-Hub, but you can use Tor and here are some addresses where you can find it."

> Here we report that, as of March 2017, Sci-Hub’s database contains 68.9% of the 81.6 million scholarly articles registered with Crossref and 85.1% of articles published in toll access journals. For toll access articles, we find that Sci-Hub provides greater coverage than the University of Pennsylvania, a major research university in the United States.

"See, Sci-Hub works that well" :-)

Managing to have this hosted on a .gov website seems noteworthy.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by praptak on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:49AM (#20633516)
Almost like this old joke: "How long can we tolerate this nest of indecency and moral corruption at Smith street 2, pink door on the second floor, knock three times?!"
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by duckerude on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:44AM (#20633492)
> Since the ledger of Bitcoin transactions is public, we can evaluate the donation activity to known Sci-Hub addresses (1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM, 14ghuGKDAPdEcUQN4zuzGwBUrhQgACwAyA, 1EVkHpdQ8VJQRpQ15hSRoohCztTvDMEepm).

Subtle

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by jraph on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @07:20AM (#20633673)
At this point, this article is a masterpiece.

Thanks for the joke praptak.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:What you may have heard about the dispute between UC and ... by jacobolus on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:28AM (#20633418)
Note that the former and current Editors-in-Chief of that journal are both UC Berkeley biologists (also huge critics of paywalled science).
[ Parent | on HN ]