Very interesting piece on Sci-Hub: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone …. Surprising that it took so long for something like this to exist.
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Sci-Hub appears to be reaching escape velocity. https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=sci-hub%2C%20arxiv&date=1%2F2011%2065m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT%2B7 …pic.twitter.com/BZi4ylnZy6
It seems likely to me to follow something like the Napster-Kazaa-lawsuits-Spotify trajectory.
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I'm not so sure... Kazaa and Napster were proper companies. Much less to sue in this case.
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@patrickc Good point, though it's true also of torrenting. Domain whackamole (& flaky service) may be the key thing, not lawsuits. - 2 more replies
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