[IRTalk] What is Alexandra Elbakyan’s motivation for creating and running Sci-Hub? | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week

[Hilton Gibson]

As one Senator said in voting against the bill: “An international copyright
is simply a monopoly … what is known as protection, or taxing the people to
make a few persons rich … It seems to me that there can be no excuse for
carrying this restriction upon human knowledge … no reason assignable why
the source of all our knowledge, why the very fountain of all our
civilization and advancement should be made more costly and more
inaccessible to the great mass of our people.”

http://svpow.com/2016/02/28/what-is-alexandra-elbakyans-motivation-for-creating-and-running-sci-hub/#comment-141472
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