Report: Z-Library admins on the lam ahead of US extradition; officials shocked
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Z-Library defends admins and vows to expand access after domain seizures.
    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Random novels =/= knowledge.

      I’m totally supporting sci-hub and it’s quest for free access to academia, but contemporary books aren’t on the same level. Writers deserve to be paid.

      Classics are all in the public domain anyway.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Fiction writers deserve to be paid but not academic writers?

        Or is it that science should be free but culture should be gate locked?

        • explore_broaden@midwest.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          It’s because the people making money off most academic papers are not the authors, rather the journal/conference they likely had to pay to publish in. Textbooks are a different story though.