Twitter Doesn’t Like Piracy, Even When It’s in the Public Service – Gizmodo Australia

Across Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe.
If you havent heard of Sci-Hub, heres what you need to know: Back in 2011, a computer programmer named Alexandra Elbakyan created the site as a way to give researchers who are often forced to subside on crap salaries access to papers that they might not be able to afford…

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