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I'm growning skeptical of the idea that every science text should be free. As a community that values privacy, it's hypocritical that these widespread leaking is so well accepted.

The fact that scihub needs to skip domain names every couple of months and that ISPs start blocking the website, looks to confirm my theory, rather than imply some worldwide conspiracy.



How is that a leak? Only the publishing companies are making money. Authors, reviewers and often editors all work for free.


I don't think they work for free, they have a salary, usually paid by universities I think.


What does this have to do with privacy?


Publishers want to keep the papers relatively private.


Except from literally anyone that pays them a monthly fee?

That's not privacy.




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