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Give it time... Elsevier and co. will unite in a final push and buy the packaged-software that Hollywood uses for DMCAs to any sites that host these papers. S
by phantom_oracle 10y ago
Give it time...
Elsevier and co. will unite in a final push and buy the packaged-software that Hollywood uses for DMCAs to any sites that host these papers.
Sci-Hub is just phase 1 of data liberation. Phase 2 is P2P, if it's not already there.
- Ar-Curunir 10y agoThe issue is that unlike music, the market for research papers isn't anywhere nearly as widespread, so average people don't have any incentive to seed research papers, whereas they do have an incentive to share blockbuster movies and music albums.
- hueving 10y agoWhat incentive do people have to share?
- zyxley 10y ago"I'll get kicked off the private tracker with all the good stuff if my seed ratio drops too low."
- lukaslalinsky 10y agoI don't think the average person would be using a private tracker.
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- titanomachy 10y agoYou might be right, although it's worth considering that the bandwidth required for sharing scientific papers is orders of magnitude less than that needed for audio or video.
- eecc 10y agoIt's not there yet, but you can chime in and contribute (I'd appreciate code reviews, pull requests and so on...) Have a look at https://github.com/ecausarano/heron https://github.com/ecausarano/heron and let me know :)