Sci-Hub, spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz, angering publishers all over again
This is all about violating a license/copyright law.  If we were talking about a large company using GNU/copyleft code and not sharing their changes back to the community, many people in the community would be demanding the law get involved (the Thesis Wordpress theme is a great example of this..which caused anger and outright hatred about 5 years ago in the HN community).It's really difficult for me to stand behind any community that doesn't put all licenses on an equal footing.  If you want the government to stop going after you for copyright infringement, you shouldn't be then using those same tactics to go after people violating the terms of your license.This girl, Like Aaron Swartz, is nothing but a petty thief.  It's pretty easy to put up a website with stolen papers/content.The other issue is that it takes millions of dollars to fund the research for many of these papers.  With no incentive to make money on the research, companies will either stop the research, or it will go completely private and there will be no access for anyone.Many of these online revolutionaries really seem to understand how the world actually works.  If you want to change it, start a research company and actually do the research yourself.