Piracy site for science research dinged again in court—this time for $4.8M

Enlarge (credit: Sci-Hub) First came the $ 15 million fine a New York federal judge imposed on Sci-Hub, a scientific research piracy site that has freed tens of thousands of research papers from behind paywalls. That was in June, and the site’s overseas operator, Alexandra Elbakyan, said she’d never pay plaintiff Elsevier or stop the infringing […]