<story><title>Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience</title><url>http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hub-as-necessary-effective-civil-disobedience/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>robertwalsh0</author><text>By and large, the academic publishing industry operates in such a way that it ignores the internet ever happened. The internet says, &amp;quot;Hey, you don&amp;#x27;t have &amp;#x27;Kant&amp;#x27;s Third Critique of Judgement in your inner-city school library. Here, let me tell you what it says&amp;quot; the academic publishing industry says &amp;quot;whoa- you&amp;#x27;re not at an institution that pays us money - you don&amp;#x27;t deserve to know what this says.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;They try to make it seem like they do so much to push knowledge forward - but they take the paper you wrote in MSWord, take credit for the peer-review, then make it into a PDF and ask for your money.&lt;p&gt;The internet is going to destroy them and they are running scared. How long can you sustain a business that relies on paywalling PDF files?</text></comment>
<story><title>Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience</title><url>http://bjoern.brembs.net/2016/02/sci-hub-as-necessary-effective-civil-disobedience/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>msvan</author><text>Civil disobedience is an important form of democracy. Maybe in the future, when all of our calls, messages and identities are monitored in full by our benevolent overlords, we won&amp;#x27;t be able to practice it anymore. Right or wrong, faraway anti-Western countries have served as counterweights against the West for Snowden, Assange and Elbakyan.</text></comment>