<story><title>Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-scientists-academics-teachers-and-students-protest-blocking-lawsuit-050121/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vixen99</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gowers.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;another-journal-flips&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;gowers.wordpress.com&amp;#x2F;2017&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;27&amp;#x2F;another-journal-flip...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tim Gowers offers some background to the overwhelming case for open access publication. Sci-hub is an example of an almost inevitable reaction to the blatant profiteering by certain academic publishers. Let&amp;#x27;s remember that in the main, taxpayers across the world, through their governments, almost alone, pay for the very expensive business of carrying out university and institutional research and preparing manuscripts for publication.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sci-Hub: Scientists, Academics, Teachers and Students Protest Blocking Lawsuit</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-scientists-academics-teachers-and-students-protest-blocking-lawsuit-050121/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>silexia</author><text>Patents and copyrights in many cases have become a tumor, destroying their original purposes to enable rent seeking from disgusting and harmful organizations.</text></comment>