when a society finds itself sunk-cost-fallacying about why bright youngsters must be denied access to the sum of human knowledge is when it may be time to take a deep breath and pull the bandaid off (change funding incentives)
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RT @alicemazzy
libgen/scihub are of such monumental social/moral worth that their illegality delegitimizes the law as a whole
https://twitter.com/alicemazzy/status/1220062740825415689
@pee_zombie research might be a little different due to the funding structure. but the core idea against scihub holds some merit: if the work is valuable, the creators should be compensated somehow. Now, here it's just parsitic companies like Elsevier reaping profit so I/others dont feel bad about using scihub.
What is a compelling alternative model for scihub? I don't know but this equilibrium we're at does not seem like a stable one.