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but capitalism does not. who do the police and politicians work for?
ACAB
Just ignore the police in this regard. They should go after the actual predators, those who put up that "Online Wank Policing" Act.
In Capitalism, Science becomes an Industry.
Why? Corporations get to.
Exactly. Just tell them your training an llm
Yes I know this wouldn't fly in reality but I'll scream hypocrisy from the top of any tree
Yes, but if they convict you, the copyright holders can use your case as a precedent for suing the AI companies. At least that's the way I understand it, I don't live in a country with precedent law.
Bobby can't catch me! πββοΈπββοΈπββοΈπββοΈπββοΈ
Freedom for me but not for thee
Here's another trick for obtaining free articles: write an email to the author and ask for a copy. We have to pay to publish on journals and don't see a dime, so we really don't care if you pirate it.
And wait for days to weeks if it didn't just go into the spam folder?
Just put the penultimate draft on arxiv or researchgate like the rest of us.
Then why publish with terms like that? Aren't there better alternatives like arxiv?
I don't know. Is arxiv peer-reviewed? The "best" solution I can come up with is paying the extra 500$ fee to publish under open license, if the journal allows you.
All knowledge should be free and unrestricted, pirating papers is completely morally and ethically justified.
I owe my master's degree to that website
"Oi, you got a loicense for those?"
Does the "email the paper authors" actually work? I've tried it lik twice but never got a response π
Many post their articles on Researchgate. I find requesting the article there has a higher success rate and it's just a click of a button.
Well, many people are busy, but yeah it should usually work. ResearchGate makes this even easier, because you can directly see who is requesting a paper and sometimes as an author you've got the paywalled paper already uploaded in researchgate.
I remember my first week using research gate and spamming the request paper button.
Thanks for the URL dear news article headline.
Unrelated, but I saw my neighbor chasing his kid, whoβs probably like 8, full speed down the street and the kid was actually pretty fast
Baby legs are no joke! You blink and they're already halfway across the house. It only gets worse as they get older.
I donβt have kids, but as a kid that got older can confirm this is true. Until you get slow again
Research paid by public university funds then goes into for profit journals because... money?
It's forbidden to read texts not ~~redacted~~ ~~sanitized~~ reviewed by the Minitru
If cops could read they'd be very upset