All rights reserved. No other license mentioned. If I go to sci-hub. One of them is legal and one is not, apparently. I assume that there is an agreement between the University of Chicago Press and JStor, so they can distribute it on the internet, but not one between the University of Chicago Press and Sci-Hub. Anyway, it's a private contract between these two parties that I cannot see and audit. Am I supposed to ask for this contract every time I download a paper?
It isn't admirable. Those who aspire to the academic life should also aspire to high standards of conduct. Respect the people authors who enable your own work.
Find ethical solutions to the problems you face, even when they are difficult. Buffy How do I advocate sneakiness? I actually tried quite hard to keep my personal views on the matter out of the answer and focus on the facts.
As long as you don't get caught, you are unlikely to get in trouble This is true for pretty much everything you can do that might get you in trouble. Show 7 more comments. Rodrigo de Azevedo Rodrigo de Azevedo 1 1 gold badge 4 4 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Arthur Tarasov Arthur Tarasov 6, 17 17 silver badges 37 37 bronze badges.
While you say some interesting things here you are still advocating unethical behavior. Sadly it seems others here seem to agree that this is ok. It is not. Buffy I agree with you and in a perfect world everyone would act ethically and be happy.
But the market for textbooks where poor students are forced by state-regulated and partially state-funded universities to get deeper into debt to government to buy specific textbooks sounds pretty inefficient to me and far from ethical either. Let people innovate and form a better market. Is a pay-first-read-later book the dead end for written knowledge?
Hopefully not. Let them innovate and come up with a better market structure I say! I agree with your immediate comment, if not your answer. Yes, work to build a better world in all ways open to you. I note that someone else's unethical behavior doesn't justify mine. And yes, I realize you didn't say otherwise, so just an observation. EladDen lucky you, these statistics say — Arthur Tarasov. ArthurTarasov Not lucky, smart. Go to the library, it has books, if it doesn't have what you need, go to your supervisors, they have funds.
Show 3 more comments. Buffy Buffy k 60 60 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Asking your uncle for pocket money to buy a book you need for a research project sounds like a joke HermanToothrot, not intended that way, actually. I once had a couple of uncles who were proud enough of me that this would be feasible.
They also happened to be quite wealthy, while I was not. Maybe I should have added "Explore all your options, even the not obvious ones. Photocopying books used to commonplace, and downloading scientific material from pirate sites is not considered unethical by most academics i know. Let's not speculate about the legal system in an unnamed country. I think that photocopying entire books was always frowned upon and illegal in many places. With the help of volunteers, the Center provides free family law assistance and legal education to the poor.
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Improve this answer. It's not quite true that the "I didn't know" defense carries no weight in the US; statutory damages for innocent infringement are lower than for willful infringement. This is a pirate site cloaking itself as a "public service". Cari Cari 11 1 1 bronze badge.
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Smaug, the link is not working. What I understand by smaug's post is that if you do it, at least don't share it like torrents do. That link appears to have become circular due to the recent major TT software update. However the thread Smaug recommended, Accused of torrenting copyrighted material , is still pinned at the top of the Legal forum.
There are over posts in that thread scores of which cover your concerns but, since the new TT software doesn't include the old-style 'topic search' feature, I'm not sure how best to point you at a specific post. AFAIK the risk lies not in downloading content per se but either in inadvertently publishing it in part or in whole when using P2P file-sharing or torrent sites or by storing multiple copies in part or in whole without having obtained the permission to do so included in the conditions of most retail purchases of the copyright holder for the Intellectual Property rights.
While I see your points about the limited availability of some books in the market as well as the expense bypassing legit sources is, in effect, like robbing the author. Nowadays the authors of best sellers may be earning much more than they would in the past but I suspect that for each one that does there are many hundreds of thousand authors who have virtually no chance of recouping their investment of time.
Posted 14 May Downloading a book legally is not illegal. Why don't you tell us what book and from where you want to download it. That will help the discussion.
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