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> be Alexandra Elbakyan

> be born in Kazakhstan in 1988

> start coding at 12

> hack your internet provider at 14

> hack MIT Press at 16 to download neuroscience books you can't afford

> get a CS degree from Satbayev University

> intern in neuroscience at Georgia Tech

> speak at Harvard on brain-computer interfaces

> notice researchers can't read the papers they need

> notice academic publishers charging $30 a paper

> notice peer reviewers worked for free

> notice editors worked for free

> notice universities funded the research with billions of dollars of public money

> build Sci-Hub in 2011

> upload nearly every paywalled research paper ever published

> give it away for free

> get sued by Elsevier

> get hit with a $15 million judgment

> don't give a flying f*ck

> keep Sci-Hub up

> get domain after domain seized

> register a new one

> keep Sci-Hub up

> get investigated by the US Department of Justice

> don't give a flying f*ck

> get accused of working for Russian intelligence

> don't give a flying f*ck

> have the FBI subpoena your iCloud

> get named one of Nature's ten people who mattered in science

> get a parasitoid wasp named after you

> get a deep-sea snail named after you

> get the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award for Access to Scientific Knowledge

> become a legend