> Academic privacy is extremely important for the freedom of science and human progress, and I haven't figured out how to juggle those priorities against the priority of making complete mirrors of scihub.
Just to be clear-- the fundamental priority is for scientists to demand free public access to the research that pubic funds have paid to produce. There are many ways to achieve that. It could but doesn't necessarily mean mirroring scihub or even using scihub.
Whatever the approach it requires no technology. It's a social problem. Until some sizable group of prominent scientists take a stand and demand that discovering and reading research papers be as easy as discovering and reading a Wikipedia entry (and accessible/maintained by a similarly reputable entity) the fundamental problem will go unsolved.
Until then practical discussions about digital privacy are unfortunately part of a continual cat-and-mouse game.
I dislike the current debt-based economy that depends on extracting more money from consumers anyway. Student debt and universities is a good example of the problems. You can also see this in things like textbooks.
Just to be clear-- the fundamental priority is for scientists to demand free public access to the research that pubic funds have paid to produce. There are many ways to achieve that. It could but doesn't necessarily mean mirroring scihub or even using scihub.
Whatever the approach it requires no technology. It's a social problem. Until some sizable group of prominent scientists take a stand and demand that discovering and reading research papers be as easy as discovering and reading a Wikipedia entry (and accessible/maintained by a similarly reputable entity) the fundamental problem will go unsolved.
Until then practical discussions about digital privacy are unfortunately part of a continual cat-and-mouse game.