Scientific research piracy site hit with $15 million fine
3 01 2018The award doesn’t mean the six-year-old Sci-Hub site is shuttering, though, despite being ordered to do so. The site has been engaged in a game of domain Whac-a-Mole ever since the case was filed in New York federal court nearly two years ago. And it doesn’t mean that the millions of dollars in damages will get paid, either. The developer of the Pirate Bay-like site for academic research—Alexandra Elbakyan of Russia—has repeatedly said she wouldn’t pay any award. She didn’t participate in the court proceedings, either. US District Judge Robert Sweet issued a default judgement (PDF) against the site this week, but Sci-Hub remains online.
Elsevier markets itself as a leading provider of science, medical, and health “information solutions.” The infringing activity is of its subscription database called “ScienceDirect.” Elsevier claims ScienceDirect is “home to almost one-quarter of the world’s peer-reviewed, full-text scientific, technical, and medical content.”
according to Wikipedia:
She began Sci-Hub on her return to Kazakhstan in 2011, characterised by Science as “an awe-inspiring act of altruism or a massive criminal enterprise, depending on whom you ask”.[16]Following a lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan is presently in hiding due to the risk of extradition;[17] Elsevier has been granted a $15 million injunction against her.[18] According to a 2016 interview, her neuroscience research is on hold, but she has enrolled in a history of science master’s program at a “small private university” in an undisclosed location. Her thesis focuses on scientific communication.[16] In December 2016, Nature Publishing Group named Alexandra Elbakyan as one of the 10 people who most mattered in 2016.[19]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan
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