• guy@piefed.social
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    1 day ago

    This makes Anna’s archive a bit problematic with that logic since when you pay for a paper you get a PDF copy?

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      22 hours ago

      These companies maintain that even though you possess a PDF, you still do not own it and do not have the rights associated with ownership.

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        16 minutes ago

        Well no, but in the same spirit of how you don’t own a movie just because you bought the DVD? I mean there are few things you actually own after buying them

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      I would consider it more problematic if the author of the paper got any of that and not the journal the author had to pay to be published