From: Winston Tabb <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 00:23:17 +0000 The answer is not binary, as posed. Original Message From: LIBLICENSE From: Ann Shumelda Okerson <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 19:17:47 -0400 Many readers have seen these pieces making the rounds today. Do folks regard this practice as hacking or as normal scholarly sharing of single articles? Why? http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34572462 http://qz.com/528526/academics-have-found-a-way-to-access-insanely-expensive-research-papers-for-free/ "Scientists are tweeting a link of the paywalled article along with their email address in the hashtag—a riff on the infamous meme of a fluffy cat’s “I Can Has Cheezburger?” line. Someone else who does have access to the article downloads a pdf of the paper and emails the file to the person requesting it. The initial tweet is then deleted as soon as the requester receives the file."