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I agree with them.
Why? If someone developed that knowledge, let them benefit from it for a certain number of years. Or else, they won't spend the time and money it takes to develop that knowledge, and we all end up losing out.
The new ruling also states that internet search engines, web hosting sites, internet service providers (ISPs), domain name registrars and domain name registries cease facilitating “any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to, use, reproduction, and distribution of the ACS Marks or ACS's Copyrighted Works.”
“This case could set precedent for the extent third-parties on the internet are required to enforce government-mandated censorship,” says Daniel Himmelstein, a data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who recently analyzed how many journal papers Sci-Hub holds.
Much (most?) of this research is funded with tax dollars
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Their statement.
I agree with them. Much (most?) of this research is funded with tax dollars, and yet is then restricted to benefit powerful financial interests like Elsevier
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