<story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>&amp;quot;As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are  doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&amp;#x2F;political parties&amp;#x2F;etc going after them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rdiddly</author><text>&amp;quot;Does this not enrage people?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;I think I have rage-fatigue, with all the swindles, con-jobs and injustices I&amp;#x27;ve seen.  But I do recognize this as utter bullshit.  Though unfortunately every other effort to take from the commons, charge money for it, and build a private fortune, throughout history, has also been bullshit; hence the rage-fatigue.&lt;p&gt;This and things like it, do enrage people, and that&amp;#x27;s why in the US they gravitate toward Sanders, Trump, nihilism, and crime.</text></comment>
<story><title>Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jfaucett</author><text>&amp;quot;As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are  doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&amp;#x2F;political parties&amp;#x2F;etc going after them?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tmptmp</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something should be done to make what Elsevier and the like do illegal, are there any groups&amp;#x2F;political parties&amp;#x2F;etc going after them?&lt;p&gt;This does enrage many people, but one feels somewhat helpless here. But we can surely raise a &lt;i&gt;hue and cry&lt;/i&gt; over the internet&amp;#x2F;emails&amp;#x2F;whatsapp&amp;#x2F;social media etc. Let more and more of the scientific community know about the existence of sci-hub and let these scum publishers bleed to death.
Political parties may not want to &lt;i&gt;disturb&lt;/i&gt; their money-givers though.</text></comment>