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It's whack-a-mole time again children!

Lots of money and time spent on what will, in the end, amount to a whole lot of nothing as, those who REALLY do want to access Sci-hub, will find a way round this.

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And isolated people without university connections who can't find a way will just have to abandon trying to access research papers relevant to their work unless able to shell out tens of Euros/dollars for one-off viewing. This is not an argument for or against, merely a statement of how things are for some. I wonder how many fall into this category.

Even people with access use scihub. It’s just easier than whatever institutional login crap they throw at you.

Yup. We used to have to use some kind of obnoxious VPN to get access; Sci-Hub is just easier. My University's library has gradually been making this easier -- I suspect partially due to COVID and partially due to the fact that people weren't using it as much because Sci-Hub is actually user-friendly.

Very true

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