30 Quotes by Alexandra Elbakyan

All content should be copied without restriction. But for education and research, copyright laws are especially damaging.

When I was a student in Kazakhstan University, I did not have access to any research papers. These papers I needed for my research project. Payment of 32 dollars is just insane when you need to skim or read tens or hundreds of these papers to do research. I obtained these papers by pirating them.

I am a freelance programmer so I am flexible about my working hours and have quite a lot of free time.