Sci-Hub as Necessary, Effective Civil Disobedience
I am a person who has been benefited by Sci-Hub immensely and hope that it continues to stay just like the Libgen project.
Journal publishers need to wake up and get their wits together and do something.<p>It used to be proprietary Software everywhere before GNU and Linux. Nowadays FSF has made FLOSS a good thing. Today we have FOSS everywhere. Even Microsoft which used to be a bastion of proprietary software now has Open Source projects.<p>Something similar to that needs to sweep the Academic publishing world otherwise progress will only slow down due to closed nature of existing literature.