[pjerem]

It’s depriving journals from money they could make from publications when they have already charged the authors to publish them.

There is no moral dilemma here : accessing an article thru Sci-Hub deprives nobody from getting its due money. Scientists unfortunately continues not being paid for the paper, journals continues being paid by universities to review the paper, but nobody wants to pay just to read a paper from the journal when it already has been paid for.

[wolverine876]

So you agree that it is theft from publishers?

[pjerem]

No, I disagree on the fact that they are « publishers » at all. Reviewers, for sure, and they still get paid for that.

But being a publisher means being an intermediate between the author and the reader, which they are not since when I buy the right to read a publication, 0% of my money goes to author.

And even, I could be ok to pay them to compensate access fees (lol !) but I prefer using their concurrent (Sci-Hub)

I call this a mafia. The fact it is legal don’t change my view on it.