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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by austhrow743 on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:46AM (#27782346)
I was surprised reading the Chronicle article after her own post. If it hadn't been from the archive.org link I would have been certain they went back and added "Elbakyan, who is originally from Kazakhstan, has a bachelor’s degree in computer science and coded Sci-Hub herself." after she complained but nope, there all the time.

Also "Pirate Queen"? "beloved outlaw"? They couldn't have made her sound cooler if they tried.

Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by mustafa_pasi on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:11AM (#27783836)
> "Pirate Queen"? "beloved outlaw"?

Cool titles, but I can see why she might not want to be lumped in with the general file sharing community. I don't think open access science should be in the same category as pirating Hollywood movies and cracking videogames.

Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by salawat on Friday July 09, 2021 @03:39PM (#27787687)
I don't think pirating video games and Hollywood movies deserve a separate category from "replicating information" to be fair, but facilitated information asymmetry is the quintessemce of most businesses... So ... Yeah. To each their own.
Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by MichaelMoser123 on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:19AM (#27783376)
I think she is trying hard to be respectable, i don't think she is trying to be just cool.
Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by wizzwizz4 on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:20AM (#27783386)
The author of Sci-Hub doesn't need to try hard to be respectable.
Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by oehtXRwMkIs on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:21PM (#27785335)
Which does not imply that she is not trying.