<story><title>US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-grants-isps-and-search-engine-blockade-of-sci-hub-171106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>As someone who works in academia (Europe) I understand that scientific papers need hosting and server space and such, but does it really help humanity that all advances will be behind very expensive pay walls? I would argue otherwise. The current trend is not sustainable nor favorable for anyone except parasitic publishers.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I understand the website was breaking the law, but this seems like symptom treating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>seer</author><text>I never understood the argument of “we’ll block this website that host papers because we need revenue to host those papers”. I mean, if you want papers to be hosted just leave people to host them... There might be other arguments and I don’t really find most of them valid as well, but the one about hosting costs just sounds ... absurd</text></comment>
<story><title>US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub</title><url>https://torrentfreak.com/us-court-grants-isps-and-search-engine-blockade-of-sci-hub-171106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Knufen</author><text>As someone who works in academia (Europe) I understand that scientific papers need hosting and server space and such, but does it really help humanity that all advances will be behind very expensive pay walls? I would argue otherwise. The current trend is not sustainable nor favorable for anyone except parasitic publishers.&lt;p&gt;Edit: I understand the website was breaking the law, but this seems like symptom treating</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ickwabe</author><text>Scientists need to try more &amp;quot;radical sharing&amp;quot;[1] as the member journalists of the ICIJ[2] did in order to report on the Panama and Paradise Papers.&lt;p&gt;Setting aside ego,etc. I would think result in faster real-world discoveries and applicitions for the good of all.&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.icij.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;radical-sharing-breaking-paradigms-achieve-change&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.icij.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;radical-sharing-breaking-p...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]International Consortium of Investigative Journalists</text></comment>