“Police warn students to avoid science website” Sean CoughlanBBC News 20 Mar 2021 https://www.bbc.com/news/education-56462390
> "Students should be aware that accessing such websites is illegal, as it > hosts stolen intellectual property," said Det Insp Kevin Ives. Interesting proposition. I'd like to see his legal advice on that one. > "If you're tricked into revealing your log-in credentials, whether it's through the use of fake emails or malware, we know that Sci-Hub will then use those details to compromise your university's computer network in order to steal research papers," he said. That's very effective advertising for Sci-Hub, given that students are (or at least have historically been) anti-authoritarian, where 'police' = the most prominent form of 'authoritarian' & students (and staff) gain from having more capitalist-monopoly sources available to them. Interestingly, in the many thousands of links to opened-source (i.e. not necessarily open-source originally) I've provided in papers over the last 25 years, I can hardly remember any on that site. -- Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected] T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Law University of N.S.W. Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
