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Hope widespread knowledge about its existence does not kill it.
by srean 11y ago
Hope widespread knowledge about its existence does not kill it.
- oxplot 11y agohttp://libgen.io/ http://libgen.io/ which archives the sci-hub's newly accessed papers distributes the copies through BitTorrent. Libgen itself is also mirrored in multiple locations. Even if Sci-hub is taken down, it shouldn't take long for another to pop up.
- petra 11y agoThey encrypt their torrents, so it's pretty useless.
- mynewtb 11y agoWhat makes you think that? If the filenames confused you, those are checksums. The metadata is available as database.
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- kanzure 11y agothey don't distribute scihub data in their torrents, it's a separate data set :(
- calibraxis 11y agoPartly depends on whether people organize to support it, I guess.
- germanier 11y agoIt's already at the receiving end of a lawsuit by Elsevier in New York. I doubt that more attention would change anything.
- astazangasta 11y agoDeath to Elsevier. I hope everyone knows the story about how they used to be involved in the international arms trade until outrage at The Lancet forced them to stop: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809159/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1809159/