Who's downloading pirated papers? ... Everyone

[applePi]

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/ ... s-everyone

warning about the page layout:
in opera v11.61 it closes all about 10 opened pages without warning.
in Chrome it display animated window with a world map, it is okay here.
in firefox it does not display the animated window.
it is may be java, or flash, or html5

[DontTalkToMe]

Long life to Sci-Hub.

Some points in common with the Aaron Swartz case
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[DarkDragon]

I have access to many papers over ACM and other sites with Shibboleth, but my university has to pay a lot for this. I first search there and then somewhere else, because I can trust their bibtex generators usually. If the paper is not there, I go to scholar.google.com and search there (which is often the case). If I can't find it there I usually search with the normal google (IIRC scholar is deprecated).

[Danilo]

Free access to all knowledge may be a step as big/huge and important as
walking upright, controlling fire, make and use stone tools, developing languages and paintings/writings,
settle and do agriculture/farming (to breed plants and animals), trading (goods and knowledge) between distant regions,
the advent of letterpress printing, scientific revolution, industrial revolution, digital revolution, ...

It's the latest digital revolution that makes it possible, and it looks like the next logical step for mankind.

[tj1010]

How does a writer or professor or researcher get paid as a result of papers being restricted? This seems to be 100% of the reason for restricting such information and I don't see how it redirects some form of cash flow to the creators or owners which kind of defeats all reasoning..