Thus computer owners can exchange thousands of dollars worth of software as easily as children trade bubble-gum cards.

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Kaufman Research Manufacturing Inc., a small company in Mountain View, Calif., recently received patent approval for a ROM that will execute a program but will not disclose the full structure of the program, the prerequisite to copying. ‘‘The only way to replicate it,’’ said Marc T. Kaufman, inventor of the device, ‘‘is to put it under an electron microscope.’’

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In-depth article about how shadow library sites like LibGen came to be and why they matter.

Breaks down the history and shows how helpful LibGen is for regular folks and us amateur scientists who just want to learn without hitting paywalls.

I totally agree that she just liberated it. But since many lawsuits said she was “stealing” from them, and people who don’t know the details at first glance may think that too. So I think the headline is correct in a news sense. And the article is very accurate and favorable of her.

I’m gonna look up Anna info next. I don’t know anything about her either.

I know a little about what it’s like to have people constantly try to remove me from places. At least in the electronic sense. Lemmy has a hate-erection for me, like no other. lol

Now that I experience hate and censorship daily, I have so much more sympathy for people like her.

And she has to deal with it in the real world. I don’t. Very easy for me to laugh it off.

But that chick has to deal with relocating, lawsuits, hackers, etc. She’s my total hero now. So fucking cool.

I could almost sympathize when it came to paper publishing. Because the cost to publish was high, and not a lot of people buying. But now with electronic formats, yeah, they are total assholes in the current sense.

I realize this is an older article from 2016. But it’s just so good, I had to share it in case some here aren’t familiar with her. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan and she’s the person behind Sci-Hub, a library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, regardless of copyright, by bypassing publishers’ paywalls in various ways.

And she’s my personal hero. :)