RICK ANDERSON: Napster vs. Record Labels, Sci-Hub vs. Publishers, Part 2: Differences - The Scholarly Kitchen

"In yesterday’s post, I discussed some of the interesting similarities between the conflict that existed between peer-to-peer copying networks (most notably Napster) and record labels during the late 1990s and early 2000s, and the conflict that currently exists between Sci-Hub and scholarly publishers. In today’s post I’ll discuss some of the differences between those situations, and then suggest two possible implications of both the similarities and the differences between them...."