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“What was especially surprising for me is that there are many people who view Sci-Hub as some kind of a tool to change the system. Like changing the system was a goal, and Sci-Hub was a tool to achieve it.” quote by Alexandra Elbakyan — Download Open image

“What was especially surprising for me is that there are many people who view Sci-Hub as some kind of a tool to change the system. Like changing the system was a goal, and Sci-Hub was a tool to achieve it.”

Alexandra Elbakyan

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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. Sci-Hub is helping them to fulfill their mission.

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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 the Internet. That includes music, movies, documentaries, books, and research articles. Not everyone agrees that copyright law should exist in the first place.

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

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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 21 million papers.

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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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