Re:The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
by sct202 on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:44AM
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Alexandra Elbakyan is very brave especially considering all the US based lawsuits that are thrown at her. Aaron Swartz was trying to do something similar at around the same time, and he got the book thrown at him and he didn't even launch anything.
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Re:The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub (2019)
by tsomctl on Friday January 10, 2020 @01:05PM
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Brave, or smart. She lives in Kazakhstan, which doesn't have an extradition agreement with the US. All she has to do is stay there, which is harder that it sounds. We've nabbed a number of people from former USSR countries when they've gone on vacation someplace warm.