Timeline for Citing paywalled articles accessed via illegal web sharing
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| Mar 8, 2019 at 1:37 | history | rollback | Sam Axe |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:03 | history | edited | FuzzyLeapfrog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Removed initial sentence
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 14:00 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Feb 28, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | Tommi | @SamAxe The question does not mention stealing, but rather using websites that have broken intellectual monopoly laws. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 13:56 | comment | added | Tommi | @user2768 Presumably most laws are not harmful to the society as a whole. Ideally none are. And, yes, changing them is important, but not relevant to the question here. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 12:05 | comment | added | Ruther Rendommeleigh | @Sam Axe "The ethics of being a thief" doesn't seem on topic as an answer to this question, especially if you're, as you stated, not talking about IP or the question. If you think the question's invalid, I'd recommend that you comment and/or flag it. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 10:46 | comment | added | Sam Axe | @RutherRendommeleigh Its not a criticism of the question. It's a condemnation of theft. And its invalid because you can't begin to consider the ethics of an act that is a direct result of an unethical action until you have fixed the original ethics violation. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 10:40 | comment | added | Sam Axe | Humm. What laws? The laws saying if you take something that isn't yours, then that's theft. How exactly are those laws socially harmful? I never once mentioned IP - only the ethics of being a thief. | |
| Feb 28, 2019 at 8:12 | comment | added | user2768 | @TommiBrander If we adopt your attitude (breaking ineffective and socially harmful laws is okay), then we are lawless. If you don't like the law, change it, don't break it. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:55 | comment | added | Ruther Rendommeleigh | This reads more like a criticism of the question than an answer. The OP already stated that they deem the act of publishing the documents unethical. Could you clarify in which way "is really not a valid question" provides a useful answer or at least a credible frame challenge? | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:49 | comment | added | Tommi | Also, this does not really answer the question. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:49 | comment | added | Tommi | And to offer the contrasting take: Pirates steal nothing, as no thing is lost by the publisher. They are breaking ineffective and socially harmful laws to create net benefit for the society. Intellectual monopoly laws are a way of restricting property rights of people for no good benefit, and in a largely unenforceable way, which is used as an arbitrary punishment mechanism for little benefit to anyone but lawyers and certain big rent-seeking companies. | |
| Feb 27, 2019 at 2:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 2:23 | history | answered | Sam Axe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |