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Ethics of Bypassing Paywalls on News
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<blockquote data-quote="dzheremi" data-source="post: 77679236" data-attributes="member: 357536"><p>Maybe I'm a weirdo, but whenever I am led to an article that is behind a paywall, I simply change course and look for another article on the same topic that is not behind a paywall. I have no trouble letting non-intrusive ads through my ad filter, as I do for this website, for example. Everyone should have the opportunity to make a living.</p><p></p><p>That said, I have on occasion used certain entirely legal websites based in Europe such as Sci-Hub to download free copies of academic journal articles, as the pricing on those is out of whack with anything resembling reality, and I have it on the authority of academics who I personally know that they do not see a dime from individual downloaded articles/book chapters. I believe there is a case to be made (which, again, has been made by academics in my field) that ethical distribution of such material is possible when the prices that are arbitrarily set by publishers for access to this material is too high. Were this not the case, it would be immoral to use a perfectly legal and beneficial website like JSTOR, but nobody tends to argue that, because it's a crazy thing to argue. There comes a point when the dedication to the spreading of knowledge that is central to the life of the academy outweighs the hoarding of intellectual property rights by corporations, particularly for the more arcane of academic disciplines (as opposed to, say, downloading a top 40 pop song because you don't want to pay for it, which is what many people think of when they think of this topic).</p><p></p><p>At any rate, I have more than enough titles released by the likes of Gorgias Press (a notoriously expensive publisher and re-publisher of theological works on Oriental Christianity), Brill, Eisenbrauns, Oxford U.P., etc. in my personal library to show that I am willing to pay substantial money for substantial work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dzheremi, post: 77679236, member: 357536"] Maybe I'm a weirdo, but whenever I am led to an article that is behind a paywall, I simply change course and look for another article on the same topic that is not behind a paywall. I have no trouble letting non-intrusive ads through my ad filter, as I do for this website, for example. Everyone should have the opportunity to make a living. That said, I have on occasion used certain entirely legal websites based in Europe such as Sci-Hub to download free copies of academic journal articles, as the pricing on those is out of whack with anything resembling reality, and I have it on the authority of academics who I personally know that they do not see a dime from individual downloaded articles/book chapters. I believe there is a case to be made (which, again, has been made by academics in my field) that ethical distribution of such material is possible when the prices that are arbitrarily set by publishers for access to this material is too high. Were this not the case, it would be immoral to use a perfectly legal and beneficial website like JSTOR, but nobody tends to argue that, because it's a crazy thing to argue. There comes a point when the dedication to the spreading of knowledge that is central to the life of the academy outweighs the hoarding of intellectual property rights by corporations, particularly for the more arcane of academic disciplines (as opposed to, say, downloading a top 40 pop song because you don't want to pay for it, which is what many people think of when they think of this topic). At any rate, I have more than enough titles released by the likes of Gorgias Press (a notoriously expensive publisher and re-publisher of theological works on Oriental Christianity), Brill, Eisenbrauns, Oxford U.P., etc. in my personal library to show that I am willing to pay substantial money for substantial work. [/QUOTE]
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