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MPAA [Wrongly] Downplays Hollywood’s Role In Keeping Piracy Alive
Over the years we have published dozens of articles on the reasons why people choose to pirate media. Time and time again “availability” comes out as one of the main motivations in both...Swartz supporter dumps 18,592 JSTOR docs on the Pirate Bay
A 31-year-old American who says his name is Gregory Maxwell has posted a 32GB file containing 18,592 scientific articles to BitTorrent. In a lengthy statement posted to the Pirate Bay, he says that...Huge Trove of Academic Docs Posted Online in Response to Activist Arrest
Just two days after activist hacker Aaron Swartz was charged with hacking for downloading too many academic articles, a giant collection of articles from the same service has been posted to the notorious...Scientific American appalled at US broadband, demands line-sharing
Scientific American might be a bit late to the controversy over line-sharing and broadband competition in the US, but the magazine today released a sharp (and unfortunately short) editorial intent on making up...Tight budgets mean hard choices for science funding
This week, Nature has an article written from a rather exceptional perspective: inside the deliberations that go on when grants are given out to researchers. In this case, in return for keeping the...Exclusive Usenet Offers: $7.95/month
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