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It's like stealing a car.
You wouldn't download a car.
Of course not, cars are immoral
Not over lemmy.world's internet connection with that "uptime", definitively!
I would if I could.
You know I would. For now I can at least download this and send it to them.
Exactly. Illegal and immoral. You get a cookie.
Whoosh
So you like stealing vehicles too?
Only hand drawn ones or e.g. 🚓 I stole this one from the interwebs. Now you saw it, you gotta pay the owner. THOUGHT CRIMe
I'm surprised we're not all out stealing cars right now.
You're part of the reason why crime is so desensitized.
Ok, I'm not sure if you're for real, but I have a feeling you're one of the dudes with the writers/actors strike and I have to say that as someone who hates barriers to knowledge I also respect your struggle to keep doing what you love. I just feel like studios are getting too greedy on both ends in an attempt to prop up unsustainable profit margins, thus making it hard to afford services and hard to live on the wages they pay.
/rant That said, scientific paper publishers are another beast and the worst offenders (e.g. see a paper related to climate change for 48 hours, 40$) many researchers don't get paid to write the paper or even pay to have it published, only to see it paywalled, so nobody will even read it legally, so they can oversharge universities. /rant off
Re: rant. Yeah, normally none of that goes to the authors of the paper. So you’re not really taking anything away from them.
Also, I have read about academic gatekeeping scams and how you can email the authors who are glad to CONSENSUALLY provide you with access to knowledge.
Most of the ones I know will thank you if you just find their work and don't add one more email to their already full mailbox 😎 it's another culture.
I have done that a couple of times.
I am not an actor. I don't have the coordination or speech consistency for that endeavor. But yes, I am for real. All of a sudden having an opinion, a remarkably controversial one at that, means that I'm a troll. I tend to get adamant about opinions. Good that I'm not a politician or... ha.