今年的 EFF Awards 頒給了 Sci-Hub 的創辦人 Alexandra Elbakyan

在「Sci-Hub’s Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award for Providing Access to Scientific Knowledge」這邊看到 EFF 把今年的 EFF Awards 頒給了 Sci-Hub 的創辦人 Alexandra Elbakyan。而 EFF 原始的公告在「Electronic Frontier Foundation to Present Annual EFF Awards to Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan, Library Freedom Project, and Signal Foundation」這邊。

維基百科對 Sci-Hub 的介紹在開頭說的頗清楚,Alexandra Elbakyan 選擇無視 copyright,提供論文免費下載:

Sci-Hub is a shadow library website that provides free access to millions of research papers, without regard to copyright, by bypassing publishers' paywalls in various ways.

而 EFF 肯定這樣的行為促進了科學知識的傳遞:

Kazakhstani computer programmer Alexandra Asanovna Elbakyan founded Sci-Hub in 2011 to provide free and unrestricted access to all scientific knowledge.

很像是 EFF 會幹的事情沒錯 XDDD