Sadly, it's for the same reasons that India bribes, honks unnecessarily, drives drunk and over speeds, why it pushes and pulls and can't form a line, why it spits and urinates where it wants and why it insists on scratching its balls before dishing out food with the same hands.
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Information is power. Like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world’s entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is being digitized and locked away by a handful of private corporations. Want to read papers featuring most famus most significant scientific results? You’ll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier.
