More like 999 pages of camouflage for that one page which gives the MAFIAA everything they want. Because it's obvious they're willing to sacrifice the truly important contents, policies on possibly life threatening counterfeited drugs and such, for something as stupid as copyright, of which it's not even clear that it's harmful at all. Why else would they, like they did with ACTA, only allow the final document to be ratified instead of allowing some input?
It's like a toddler throwing a tantrum: "If I can't have that then I don' wan anythin!!!"
It's true, I used the wrong word there... But please understand, not everyone here has english as their native language, so mistakes like this can happen.
I agree with Doug though, not everything you find in scientific literature is true, far from it. Especially if you consider the fact that the information can be outdated in the case of older articles, or it can be on a subject on which there is no consensus yet, in that case some articles will be proven wrong in the future.
True, but there's a difference between citing someone and building on their research and simply copying someone else's work and getting a degree. Especially if you consider the fact that these people usually got paid for their work, so you've essentially paid them for doing nothing and they got a degree they didn't earn to go with it.
Well, I honestly don't know anyone who truly plagiarized, so where I'm studying the situation doesn't seem so bad. I study biology though, I don't know how things are in the 'alpha' departments O.o
I do think scientific article should be free though, most research here is government funded, it's ridiculous that it's not freely accessible. And if an article isn't free, at the very least the prices for purchasing a single digital article should drop, I mean $40?! A price between $5 and $10 seems much but would at least be feasible, best would be between $2 and $4, especially since scientific magazines generally don't have to pay anything to get their material. Our university library spens MILLIONS to keep access to these darn magazines, so we're lucky. But I remember a foreign professor (who also works at a university) coming over for a few months who was dumbstruck by the amount of access we have here and went on a downloading spree. And even from here I regularly run into the paywall. So you can imagine how much some research suffers from lack of access to earlier studies...
You're kidding right? I LOVE commercials :D They give me the time to use the bathroom, fetch snacks/drinks and do whatever else I need to do without missing anything of whatever I'm watching ^_^
I agree, essentially something is given to the public by law and then taken away again without consent, normally that would be called stealing. Except the thieves bought a law to legalize the taking away.
I don't think so, enslaved gives the impression that the works are actually being used for something, which they're not, they're just sitting there unused. I think imprisoned works or hostage works is better.
I do think this could work, especially with the out of print books being sold. I've heard of people who spent ages looking for a specific book and then bought it for a huge amount second hand. This would definitely be great if you're looking for an out of print book.
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I agree with Doug though, not everything you find in scientific literature is true, far from it. Especially if you consider the fact that the information can be outdated in the case of older articles, or it can be on a subject on which there is no consensus yet, in that case some articles will be proven wrong in the future.
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I do think scientific article should be free though, most research here is government funded, it's ridiculous that it's not freely accessible. And if an article isn't free, at the very least the prices for purchasing a single digital article should drop, I mean $40?! A price between $5 and $10 seems much but would at least be feasible, best would be between $2 and $4, especially since scientific magazines generally don't have to pay anything to get their material. Our university library spens MILLIONS to keep access to these darn magazines, so we're lucky. But I remember a foreign professor (who also works at a university) coming over for a few months who was dumbstruck by the amount of access we have here and went on a downloading spree. And even from here I regularly run into the paywall. So you can imagine how much some research suffers from lack of access to earlier studies...
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Guess I'll have to find me that page with proxies the judge recently refused to take down.
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