Sites are routinely blocked in India. Everyone knows to use VPN software.

Knowledge should not be restricted in anyway, we should have direct access to these and also LLMs as well.

Currently, many LLM services only provide stuff from the study abstract.

India is like a obsequious slave: it'll endlessly suck-up to the West, but then harden-up like anything, when this sucking-up goes unacknowledged (like the recent tariffs).

One of Colonization's sad effects (fairly sure all the Indian bureaucrats are helping with this to "settle" out their children in US/Europe with kickback "scholarships").

This site is blocked at my workplace as well. A message from FortiGate says: "Category: Illegal or Unethical"

What a shameful government!

clicks the link

blocked

Oh right, France government is shameful too.

An individual scientist/researcher (most of them) is in pursuit of truth. Nothing matters, and nothing should matter other than that. For future discoveries, we should make knowledge as accessible as possible. But when an organization forms, it competes for power and superiority. This results in discriminatory actions that cause the overall regression of collective innovation. It is sad to see this happen.

I don't know why they decided to pause uploads. Relying on Indian courts for sensible and timely judgments will only lead to grief. They do not respect precedence and judgements often depend on the judge and the people involved rather than the facts of the case.

What happened in University of Oxford v. Rameshwari Photocopy Service is pretty rare.[1] I doubt if we will see a repeat of that one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Oxford_v._Ramesh...

What's wrong with you India?

It's also 'blocked' in the UK, to the extent that I had one more click, on the vpn button, to read the article. (Veepn free browser extension seems to work well - I've used that for a year or two).

Seems like India is shooting itself in the foot by making it more difficult to access knowledge for the benefit of overseas publishers. Countries that don't do this will be at an advantage.

Ironically, hosted on a page that me in "modern" Spain cannot read as Sci-Hub been blocked here with a lot of ISPs for a long time :)