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Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by tyingq on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:05PM (#25779757)
Not a fan of "pirated" as the descriptive word for what Sci-Hub does. I'm sure some of it fits that description. On the other hand, a fair amount of these papers are funded with taxpayer dollars, and shouldn't be hidden behind paywalls in the first place.
Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by ABeeSea on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:22PM (#25780004)
The chairs at the DMV are also paid with taxpayer dollars. I’d be arrested if I tried to walk out the door with one.
Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by superkuh on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:29PM (#25780133)
If you took a photo of one of the chairs and looked at it at home you'd be just fine though. You're mixing up theft and copyright infringement.
Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by kache_ on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:37PM (#25780267)
You wouldn't download a chair from the DMV
Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by jancsika on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:13PM (#25783464)
Someone should design a a front-end framework for which anachronistic analogies like this make sense.

E.g., if a user selects some text and chooses "Copy," the text gets deleted and a listener sends a message back to the server to signal that the text has been "pirated."

At that point the server not only deletes the associated data, but sends a message to all extant clients to remove the given text.

Kinda like a realtime borrow-checker, but not so much for memory safety as for the sheer stupidity of it.

Edit: clarification

Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by typenil on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:25PM (#25780069)
That's totally the same thing - because downloading a paper destroys the original copy.
Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by rektide on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:31PM (#25780153)
Let's talk about the purpose of these things, chairs & papaers.

The purpose of a chair is to enhance the space it resides in by enabling folks to rest/sit in the chair.

The purpose of a paper is to document science, such that others can see that science, replicate it, learn from it, extend it; the purpose of a paper is to present science such that we can all beget yet more science to happen.

Re:Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub by jenwkejnwjkef on Thursday January 14, 2021 @02:21PM (#25780956)
Intellectual "property" is not property.