Sci-Hub gets its own Twitter account

Sci-Hub gets its own Twitter account

Sci-Hub home page.

Sci-Hub home page.
A screen shot: Shoshana Wudinsky (Gizmodo)

On Twitter on Friday, open source advocates and academics penned one up on suspension From Sci-Hub, A site that allows researchers to bypass the costly unpaid blocking system for more than 70 Million Papers from all over the world.

If you haven’t heard of Sci-Hub, here’s what you need to know: B.ack in 2011, a computer programmer named Alexandra Albayan Created Site as a way to give seekers – who are often forced to calm down crap payrollAccess paperwork that they might not otherwise be able to afford. This is a noble reason for sure, but still a cause It involves a certain degree of piracy. As a result, the Sci-Hub launch has put the nation in the crosshairs of major academic publishers who perished several years Try to remove the site.

The most recent crackdown took place at the end of last year, when three major academic publishers took off Foot Copyright infringement lawsuit in India against Sci-Hub and co-owner of the open source Libgen website. To put this in context: ONate from this publishing house, Elsevier, has built a reputation for shipping some universes Tens of millions Of dollars annually as part of their subscriptions. And the work of the Albigensians cut into their business.

Apparently, Twitter agrees. Stay Tell Torrentfreak said her account was permanently suspended for violating the platform’s policies Ambient counterfeitingBut Twitter did not go into detail – only indicating that the decision “is not subject to appeal,” she said.

It should be noted here that the academics residing in India have spent the last few weeks crowd About the Sci-Hub Twitter account. While the comment erased a large portion of them, the rest actually were Archiving has started Majority in case something like this happens. Regardless of the sentimental value, she has made it clear that she plans to read the posts aloud in court as part of her case “to prove Sci-Hub shouldn’t be banned.”

Until the results of this legal battle come to light, all academics can do is cross their fingers and hope that Sci-Hub’s Twitter account is the last thing to be lost.

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