Private academic publishers must die!
Hunter thinks Chris Dodd and the Motion Picture Association of America are corporate parasites for trying to shut-down the internet. And he’s right, but they are not the only corporate parasites in town these days infringing on the public welfare. Basically, big scientific publishers want government to pay-wall all publicly-funded scientific research.
The Research Works Act’s complete bullshit title runs thusly,
“To ensure the continued publication and integrity of peer-reviewed research works by the private sector.” -H.R. 3699[1]
but should more accurately be entitled,
“To ensure extraction of utterly parasitic publisher’s profits completely at taxpayer expense, while strip-mining knowledge from the world and causing needless, heedless damage to the public’s health and welfare in order to profit, profit, profit a few private individuals.”
Thanks for selling us our research, you blood-sucking, segmented worms.