The access codes are not for the cooperating academics to give to anyone for free.
They are in violation of their employer’s policies and they are in violation of the legal documents signed by their employers.
Helping or cooperating with thievery is still thievery.
--Philip DiVietro, Managing Director, Publishing, ASME.
From: SANFORD G THATCHER <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:44:22 -0500
The article refers to the authentications as "stolen," but isn't it true that many of the access codes are given to Sci-Hub freely by cooperating academics?
Sandy Thatcher
On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 09:04 PM LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
>Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 12:18:34 -0700
>
>The intra-FSU politics of Sci-Hub have been the subject of speculation
>before (
>https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakyan-sci-hub-open-access-science-papers-lawsuit),
>with Elbakyan's presumed residence in Russia complicating the hypothetical
>narratives. She was interviewed in the propaganda film *Paywall*, but was
>not asked questions that would clarify the funding, control, and operation
>of Sci-Hub. Now today, this news, presumably a complication:
>
>https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/sci-hub-blocked-in-russia-following-ruling-by-moscow-court/3009838.article#.XAWkzt3kPek.twitter
>
>Jim O'Donnell
>ASU