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Broke student to the most wanted woman in science publishing

Reddit r/Piracy·u/hakh-ti-cxamen·about 1 month ago
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Broke student to the most wanted woman in science publishing \> be Alexandra Elbakyan \> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988 \> start coding at 12 \> hack your internet provider at 14 \> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford \> get a CS degree from Satbayev University \> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech \> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces \> notice researchers can't read the papers they need \> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper \> notice peer reviewers worked for free \> notice editors worked for free \> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money \> build Sci-Hub in 2011 \> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published \> give it away for free \> get sued by Elsevier \> get hit with a $15 million judgment \> don't give a flying f\*ck \> keep Sci-Hub up \> get domain after domain seized \> register a new one \> keep Sci-Hub up \> get investigated by the US Department of Justice \> don't give a flying…

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