Brah, think of it as millions of data-drenched pages, packed with high-voltage scholarly juice, swirl through the wires like ghost smoke, and then vanishing into the hidden vaults of a shadow library buried deep in the darkweb. A digital rebel bunker, ducking the sweaty claws of greedy suits who’d sell knowledge by the ounce if they could!
OR just some random AI image the author of the piece picked? I don't know.
Free flow of knowledge is absolutely essential. Of all the things that should be accessible knowledge and the opportunity for every person to realize their full potential should be a must.
I totally agree. I often think about self-taught scientists like Michael Faraday or Mary Anning and what they’d say about how hard it is to access knowledge today, even with all the tech we have. Back in the 1800s, they had to hunt down books, write letters to experts, and dig through whatever scraps of info they could find. Now we’ve got the internet, but somehow it’s still locked behind paywalls and profiteers trying to gatekeep learning.
Yeah, I was bummed to find out it's no longer updated. But there are so many articles that it's still helpful and great. And she still is holding the flame by keeping it up. I'm checking out libgen right now actually.
I totally agree that she just liberated it. But since many lawsuits said she was "stealing" from them, and people who don't know the details at first glance may think that too. So I think the headline is correct in a news sense. And the article is very accurate and favorable of her.
I know a little about what it's like to have people constantly try to remove me from places. At least in the electronic sense. Lemmy has a hate-erection for me, like no other. lol
Now that I experience hate and censorship daily, I have so much more sympathy for people like her.
And she has to deal with it in the real world. I don't. Very easy for me to laugh it off.
But that chick has to deal with relocating, lawsuits, hackers, etc. She's my total hero now. So fucking cool.
I could almost sympathize when it came to paper publishing. Because the cost to publish was high, and not a lot of people buying. But now with electronic formats, yeah, they are total assholes in the current sense.
I get so pissed when I think about Aaron Swartz. He was a bit before his time. I'd love it if here were still around. There would be so much more people rallying behind him these current times.
Yep, I just found out about it recently because I was doing research on a project. I had heard, but never explored or looked into, sci-hub. I had no idea about it. I don't know how I missed it all of these years!
I realize this is an older article from 2016. But it's just so good, I had to share it in case some here aren't familiar with her. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan and she's the person behind Sci-Hub, a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways.
Yep! That's why projects like this are so essential.