Posted on: 01/20/21 09:17PM
Hollow_Pieuvre said:
As I said, I wouldn't pay $482 USD a month even if he/she was the absolute best of the best at illustrating/animating. Ever.
Honestly, I wouldn't be willing to pay that even once for the most part. Maybe if they were insanely good, they churned out hundreds of images every month (
all of which I loved) and that was a one-time payment for access to everything they produced for their lifetime I'd consider it. But I'm not paying that much even to grab the whole backlog of years of art even once from that artist in question, and I honestly can't think of a single artist I'd be willing to do it for.
pugsaremydrugs said:
Let's slightly derail this thread and reframe the question of copyright: when it comes to websites like Sci-Hub forgoing expensive subscriptions to academic journals. Who is at fault? The scholars? The professors who coach the scholars? The publishing companies? The people who allow Sci-Hub access to these articles?
Oh that one's easy, it's the publishing companies who run the journals. The journals are basically a scam at this point. Scientists have to pay to submit their papers (ostensibly to cover the costs of formatting); peer review is done for free by other scientists; and then scientists & institutions have to pay for subscriptions. Subscriptions that constantly increase in price every year and had already hit astronomical pricing decades ago. You'll notice that the journals themselves are doing very little themselves, and even some of the things they do (formatting) is paid for by scientists.
You will find very,
very few scientists and librarians who support this system, but it's locked in place and it's hard to change it. And that's why Sci-Hub continues to survive.
A related note: If you want to read a paper for some reason, don't have access to a subscription to the journal, and can't find it on Sci-Hub try e-mailing the authors directly. Most of them are happy to share their pre-prints with pretty much anyone that asks nicely, and all you miss out on is some fancier formatting.