Epistemology - Three Ways of Talking about Sci-Hub

Plutchak discusses three ways of talking about the Sci-Hub website which was started in 2011 by Elbakyan to provide free access to research papers and books. The arguments over Sci-Hub continue unabated, banking across three interlocked themes which include Sci-Hub as a significant, and still largely underappreciated, security risk to the computer systems of institutions of higher education. The daily news regularly reports on massive security breaches at large companies with substantial resources for network security. It is unlikely that universities are going to discover the magic impenetrable firewall. As long as it's substantially easier to get articles from Sci-Hub, it will thrive. She argues that libraries and publishers must develop systems that make it easy to access articles legitimately to ensure that Sci-Hub will wither.