🤝 I download new music to check if I like it, and if I do then go over to Qobuz and buy it DRM-free and download the flac file, which is my flac file. Happy to support the musicians.

😂 🤝

A reminder also to boycott, as much as possible, those thirteen major publishers – most or all of which are stealing from academia:

APRESS MEDIA, LLC; CENGAGE LEARNING, INC.; ELSEVIER INC.; HACHETTE BOOK GROUP, INC.; HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS LLC; JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.; MCGRAW HILL LLC; BEDFORD, FREEMAN & WORTH PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC D/B/A MACMILLAN LEARNING; MACMILLAN PUBLISHING GROUP, LLC; PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.; PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE LLC; SIMON AND SCHUSTER, LLC; AND TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP LLC

entered a permanent worldwide injunction

No https problems for me.

Well-fought ProtonVPN.

The Paris court must have a strong taste of shit in their mouths from licking the media companies’ arses…

Thank you for the updates! I agree that they should simply state a clear data limit, given that they have one. One of my concerns about them is their being based in Canada, Five Eyes. Although I wonder how’s the Five Eyes situation now, given the present political storm.

I saw they spreadsheet was last updated 2020. Wonder what happened to them.

Absolutely. I’ve heard other positive user comments on Windscribe.

This was another good one, thanks!

Thank you. They do say that they get commissions, but I found some interesting VPNs there. Had never heard of Windscribe, and it sounded interesting. Luckily this post gave an important warning about it.

Best option may actually be to do a search on VPN opinions here on Lemmy…

https://open-slum.pages.dev/ (unofficial mirror)

https://open-slum.org/

https://open-slum.pages.dev/ (unofficial mirror)

Keep an eye also on https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/1n4vjud/megathread_status_of_libgen/

Does it really? sad. I was reading the “invite” process and can’t say I fully understand it.

Papers can always be uploaded to https://libgen.is/scimag/librarian/ Many thanks to all the anonymous users who do.

Restored! Maybe worth a post update?

https://open-slum.org/

“Ethical and legal objections”. The point in this case is that what’s legal is unethical, and what’s ethical is illegal. Analogous to other situations through history and countries, for example in the USA when it was illegal for black people to sit in certain parts of a bus, or in Germany when marriage with Jewish people was illegal.

As human beings, it’s always important to make the ethical choice.

Which can be further summarized: academics (🙋🏻) are basically a bunch of idiotic sheep, despite being in academia.

See also https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not-the-elsevier