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Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan reports that she has received a worrying email, ostensibly from Apple, revealing that law enforcement has demanded and gained access to her account data. The email indicates an FBI investigation although the precise nature of any inquiry remains unclear.
As the world’s leading distributor of millions of otherwise ‘paywalled’ research papers, Sci-Hub is often described as “The Pirate Bay of Science”.
At the same time as being loved by many academics and students, Sci-Hub has become public enemy #1 in publishing circles, with the major academic publishers doing everything in their power to shut the platform down, hinder access to it, and prevent its operator from communicating with the world.