Tag: Sebastian Lütgert
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In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
:::::::::::::::::: contact: little.prince@custodians.online In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some…
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Scanners, collectors and aggregators. On the ‘underground movement’ of (pirated) theory text sharing
“But as I say, let’s play a game of science fiction and imagine for a moment: what would it be like if it were possible to have an academic equivalent to the peer-to-peer file sharing practices associated with Napster, eMule, and BitTorrent, something dealing with written texts rather than music? What would the consequences be…