Calling r/bitcoin to help SciHub survive

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Sci-Hub is the most known website to allow access to research material that would normally be pay-walled. Because of that, scientific journals, and publishing corps obviously won't like it. So in November 2017, Elsevier won a lawsuit against them, and managed to shut down two domains.

Just a week ago, Cloudflare has been forced to stop protecting sci-hub. Since then, the other 6 domains this website is hosted on have been going up and down frantically, and the service quality has been severely reduced.

So, the obvious argument comes up : why should we support something illegal? The following answer is really just my own, and isn't affiliated with Scihub in any way.

See, while I understand how piracy in other fields is detrimental, where we have private studios making movies, private companies creating video games; pirating those private works hurts directly the sales of that specific company. ( cough Even though studies suggest otherwise cough ) So obviously, in order to support those studios and companies to create more entertainment, we have to buy their products. That makes a 100% sense.

But then you come to the academic research field, and the whole concept makes a little bit less sense. Researchers from around the globe, spend years of their time, to learn, discover, and innovate in all kinds of scientific fields. Once one of them comes up with something that he believes is worthy of being shared with the rest of the scientific community, he obviously needs to publish it online, but not just anywhere, somewhere relevant, and widely known enough, for him to get peer-reviewed, and feedback from other researchers that will write their own articles assuming his article is worthy enough to be published.

And then it starts to make less sense, because these journals where most of the information is published, cost money both for researchers trying to publish their works, but also for other researchers trying to get access to them. See you're not supporting further research when you're paying for articles, scientists aren't getting remunerated by journals. Where does the money go then? In a world where publishers had to print physical copies of these journals and send them all around the world it made sense, but right now where these journals add no value to these scientific articles, and only publish them in e-books and html pages, it's downright insane that the subscription prices to these journals has not only remained, but even skyrocketed.

So there's obviously something wrong here, (explained better in this video about academic open access) and there have been attempts at trying to make current research open to the public, but until then, as long as publishers have the upper hand, please support this woman into helping generations of scientists. (Article about alexandra-elbakyan, founder of scihub)

The donation address displayed in https://web.archive.org/web/20170518115444/http://sci-hub.cc:80/ is the same as the one in the current mirrors (sci-hub.hk, sci-hub.tw,..) , so it's safe to say it's accurate : 1K4t2vSBSS2xFjZ6PofYnbgZewjeqbG1TM

Extra edit : this post was blocked by the spam filter and once it was unblocked it had no visibility. So I deleted it and had to repost it. I want to thank u/dalebewan for his donation on my first post, and for gilding me.

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