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Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for free (www.independent.co.uk)

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[-] cupcakezealot 42 points 1 year ago

articles aren't - and cannot be - stolen; articles are meant to be read.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

You can steal potential profits.

[-] cupcakezealot 4 points 1 year ago

information isn't profit

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Stealing profits that are already made by stealing? Yeah, I have no sympathy for that.

Tax payers already pay for this shit through federal funding of the sciences, just for the publishers to turn around and steal people's time and money to view and peer review them. Publishers are thieves, so they can go fuck themselves.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago

I agree, If the research was funded by the government; then the research belongs to the people.

Publishers and corporations is why IP laws are so fucked up beyond recognition.

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