"stolen" is such an exaggerated misrepresentation...news organizations should really do better. When you steal something from someone, the owner loses access to it. She just liberated public research.

[–] Trihilis@ani.social 77 points 3 days ago (2 children)

When a regular person makes something available that shouldnt be behind a paywall to begin with it's stealing. When a billionaire or company uses ai to gather data from paid sources or just straight out plagiarises it's just maximising profits.

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey hey hey, hold on just a second. It's not called "maximizing profits", we don't do that! It's called ✨innovation✨

[–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

disruption 🤌

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

democratization 🫡

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

Using public information to create something new is not even a little the same as copying private information and then making it public.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago

This is why I hate the recent trend where people are saying "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

"Piracy", or more accurately "copyright infringement" was never stealing. What you're doing is violating the government-granted monopoly on copying something. That's so different from stealing.

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Also I have met people who have published some pretty important papers, most of them use scihub on a weekly basis, and none of them care that their papers get "stolen". And they all have some strong opinions about Elsevier.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

These articles were stolen, by the paywall operators. Elbakyan rescued them from the thieves. 🎉

[–] shath@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

like stealing video games that you technically license if you buy, you're not stealing anything except access which is fundamentally the only thing they can sell

[–] UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

I totally agree that she just liberated it. But since many lawsuits said she was "stealing" from them, and people who don't know the details at first glance may think that too. So I think the headline is correct in a news sense. And the article is very accurate and favorable of her.