When corporations scrape academic papers, it's justified. When individuals do it, it's inexcusable.TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com – 1196 points – 5 days ago78Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentAint jstor a private enterprise?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.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.Which means they're adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.
Aint jstor a private enterprise?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.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.Which means they're adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.
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.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.Which means they're adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.
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.
Which means they're adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.
Aint jstor a private enterprise?
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.
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.
Which means they're adding profit margin to the otherwise zero marginal cost of said information good.