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Â鶹Éç Trending: The Scientists Encouraging Online Piracy
Meet the scientist who set up a ‘Pirate Bay for academics’, allowing them to swap research papers - usually illegally - online.
Across the internet, scientists are swapping academic papers in secret - most of the time illegally – using a Twitter hashtag ‘#ICanHazPDF’. We ask the scientist who came up with the idea why thousands of people are using it, and how they justify their actions.
Produced by Estelle Doyle.
(Photo: Scientist at computer / Photo Credit: Shutterstock)
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