When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable. - eviltoast
  • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    Just let anyone scrape it all for any reason. It’s science. Let it be free.

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de
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        It’s a US “non-profit”. One that demands 19$ per article which they merely provide as aggregator, they don’t own shit.

        Utterly absurd.

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          Non profit here merely means they are exemot from US income taxes so they are grifting even hardrr on us.

          MIT is grifting in a similar but bigger manner.

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          Which means they’re adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.