<story><title>Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I&apos;ll publish 2M new articles to celebrate</title><url>https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1434356217208623106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lcvw</author><text>I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of material available. People always point to Wikipedia, but all of that is surface level. If you to build something, research something, or just really delve into it, there’s no substitute for having access to all of the latest textbooks, manuals, and papers. I’ve never found any source paid or otherwise that comes even close.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>KNrDajfZ</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s the typical Eastern European (or non-US centric) Internet. The IP laws make sense only if people have the capital to buy stuff. When I was a kid in a post-Soviet country, no one ever bought anything original (like a CD with a game). Everything was bootleg or pirated from the Internet.&lt;p&gt;After [the US lobby started to push for copyright enforcement in the EU under the threat of sanctions](&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;falkvinge.net&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;cable-reveals-extent-of-lapdoggery-from-swedish-govt-on-copyright-monopoly&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;falkvinge.net&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;cable-reveals-extent-of-lap...&lt;/a&gt;), things have changed. The copyright and IP laws that US lobbies push to the world are killing the idea of free Internet and only benefit large corporations that are untouchable.&lt;p&gt;Elsevier is Dutch-based and they are fierce in suing everyone who tries to get away with getting free papers that were paid for by the taxpayers.&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;free&amp;quot; Internet doesn&amp;#x27;t exist anymore, but it&amp;#x27;s good to have places like Russia where the IP law is not strictly enforced, because everything is broken so no one cares.</text></comment>
<story><title>Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I&apos;ll publish 2M new articles to celebrate</title><url>https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/1434356217208623106</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lcvw</author><text>I really hope sci-hub survives this. Sci-hub and libgen are like an entirely different internet, one allowing you to dive as deep as you wish into any technical subject. There’s really no comparison I have found anywhere for the depth of material available. People always point to Wikipedia, but all of that is surface level. If you to build something, research something, or just really delve into it, there’s no substitute for having access to all of the latest textbooks, manuals, and papers. I’ve never found any source paid or otherwise that comes even close.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>I really wish someone could build a better UI for this research internet.&lt;p&gt;Hyperlinks for all references would be a good start.   Finding some way to make some automatic glossary of definitions of technical terms would make scientific papers substantially more accessible too.</text></comment>