Copyright Quote by Alexandra Elbakyan

“All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.”

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There is the possibility to be suddenly arrested for hacking.

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I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books,…

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I like their slogan 'making uncommon knowledge common' very much, but as far as I can tell Elsevier has not mastered this job well.…

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Journal paywalls are an example of something that works in the reverse direction, making communication less open and efficient.

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I know there are some reasons to suspect me: after all, I have education in computer security and was a hobby hacker in teenage…

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I could obtain any paper by pirating it, so I solved many requests and people always were very grateful for my help. After that,…

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Providing free access to research papers on websites like Sci-Hub breaks so-called copyright law that was made to taboo free distribution of information on…

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I have a lot of supporters but they are not well organized. They send me donations but for the most part, their commitment is…

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I started a crowdfunding campaign on Sci-Hub to buy additional drives, and soon had my own copy of the database collected by LibGen, around…

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There should be no obstacles to accessing knowledge.

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When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research…

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Science should belong to scientists and not the publishers.

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Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble.

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I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

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