• loops@beehaw.org
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    This vast infringement is causing publishers and authors serious financial and creative harm, publishers allege.

    Creative harm? As in switching out one graph for the another? Mixing up the table of contents? Maybe adding a sentence or two every few years when that research paper is in the public domain?

    *worlds tiniest violin

    an average of over 9 million visitors per month from the United States

    Who wouldn’t be able to pursue a credible education otherwise.

    Publishers should shut the fuck up and take the money that is given to them by rich kids parents. Everyone else can’t afford their shit. They’re making the decades old mistake of thinking that everyone that downloads their books freely would’ve paid for it.

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      They don’t care if those who can’t afford would be without. They want to squeeze every dime out of every student they can, it’s their business model.