Anything Quote by Alexandra Elbakyan

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

— Alexandra Elbakyan

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as…

— Marco Arment

Without commenting on the legal aspects, which I'm not capable of doing, those are lifestreams and there are other companies that have done similar…

— David Gelernter

In Russia, they do not generally block the Internet and directly censor websites.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

¦actually getting documents is not so hard, the problem is publishing them and keeping them up in the face of attacks -both economic and…

— Julian Assange

The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published…

— Aaron Swartz

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…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

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

— Alexandra Elbakyan

The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles…

— Nick Bostrom

This site is the only site that isint blocked by school computers so the only reason I made it was to screw around in…

— Mike Campbell

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because…

— Jean-Michel Jarre