https://mobile.twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/143435621720862...
Scihub used to be a great resource, now it's only a resource for old research. Still useful for background material, but not for current work.
I also don't understand why the Indian court case has any impact on new article availability. The owner is not Indian. The servers and domains are not Indian. There doesn't seem to be any actual reason to stop adding new articles, other than some idiotic halfbaked point that only hurts the people who need the articles, like when Project Gutenberg banned anyone from a German IP, except this is much worse since there is no way around it for people who need new papers.
Because Sci-Hub has a good chance of winning the case. The court in question has previously backed a very broad definition of what constitutes fair dealing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_v._Rame...
I understand that this is the party line that is parroted whenever this issue comes up, but it does not make any sense as a rationale for keeping new articles off the site. How is not adding any new articles (but, for example, keeping old articles accessible) assisting the possible winning of the case? And more to the point, why does it matter at all if it wins or loses the case? As stated, neither the owner or the infrastructure is Indian, so of what relevancy is this jurisdiction?
And further still, the case appears to have been delayed indefinitely. That last update claims that there was going to be an update a few days ago, but there was not. The proceedings are just now a list of one postponement after another [1]. Given that new articles are being held hostage, it thus very obviously benefits the legal system and the prosecution to continue to delay the case indefinitely.
[1] https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pn...
As per the official tweet that has already been mentioned in this thread [1]:
> how about the lawsuit in India you may ask: our lawyers say that restriction is expired already
So according to the owner's official Twitter, this is no longer a valid reason, and yet new papers are still not accessible. Why is that?
[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ringo_ring/status/143435621720862...
Give man a fish and he will praise you for a day. Give man a spinning and he will bitch at you because it is not a fish.
Guys: post your papers on the arXiv.
The court case has also been delayed for over a year now, so if it is delayed indefinitely, like it seems to be, then we will also not get access to new articles, also indefinitely? That's ridiculous. The last update from the court proceedings claimed that there would be a new update over a month ago, which in turn got delayed yet again to a few days ago, and there's been nothing [1].
[1] https://delhihighcourt.nic.in/dhc_case_status_oj_list.asp?pn...
Relatedly, if any academics want to help a small bit to resolve this by signing the amicus brief (i.e. intervention application) we made for Sci-Hub, you can do so by contacting me through https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1_if6Lipu-YPBMLk6zYjBxDFRA_c... and I will connect you with the coordinating lawyer. You can read more about this at https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/bEKwqNDGysnZRcmpw/...