{"id":91599,"date":"2016-05-09T10:26:28","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91599"},"modified":"2016-05-09T10:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T08:27:27","slug":"academic-material-next-in-big-piracy-take-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/91599-academic-material-next-in-big-piracy-take-down","title":{"rendered":"Academic material next in big piracy take-down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academic torrent site Sci-Hub is currently <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2016\/05\/piracy-site-for-academic-journals-playing-game-of-domain-name-whac-a-mole\/\" target=\"_blank\">facing <\/a><\/strong>several take-down orders by leading world publisher Elsevier.<\/p>\n<p>The site allows anybody, not just academics, to access tens of millions of scholastic research articles for free.<\/p>\n<p>The website was created by 27 year-old bioengineer turned Web programmer, Alexandra Elbakyan, who hoped her site would result in the promotion of information to all.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the targeting, Sci-Hub has had to repeatedly change domain names as Elsevier repeatedly brings court-orders to bring each new site down.<\/p>\n<p>Elsevier offers its paid materials to several academic institutions across the globe, so Sci-Hub would be cutting directly into its profits:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sci -Hub is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/sci-hub.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">an international network of piracy<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(PDF) and copyright infringement by circumventing legal and authorized means of access to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\" target=\"_blank\">ScienceDirect<\/a><\/strong> database. Defendants\u2019 piracy is supported by the persistent intrusion and unauthorized access to the computer networks of Elsevier and its institutional subscribers&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything you need to know about the Telkom Digital Gaming League\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90455-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-telkom-digital-gaming-league.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything you need to know about the Telkom Digital Gaming League<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87989-crystal-webs-massive-gaming-plans.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91479-intels-10-core-gaming-processor-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academic torrent site Sci-Hub is currently facing several take-down orders by leading world publisher Elsevier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":73697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18507,31,101,18505,18509],"class_list":["post-91599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-academic","tag-active","tag-piracy","tag-sci-hub","tag-takedown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91621,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91599\/revisions\/91621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}