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.com? Is that wise? I imagine the domain will be seized as soon as the site becomes popular enough. They should at least have some contingency plan to deal with
by mtgx 10y ago
.com? Is that wise? I imagine the domain will be seized as soon as the site becomes popular enough. They should at least have some contingency plan to deal with that.
- ORioN63 10y agoTorrents don't mean illegal content.
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- sandworm101 10y agoIn his defence, it doesn't really matter whether the content is legal or not. There are people out there who see the torrents as evil. These people have political power and have been known to disrupt and seize .com domains on the scantiest of evidence. A more resilient tld would be a good idea.
- hueving 10y agoDo you have an example of a domain being seized for hosting legitimate torrents?
- Ianvdl 10y agoWhy? Nothing indicates that this is illegal?
- angusp 10y agoIf it is as they claim well academically supported, you'd assume they'd be easily able to get a subhuman on someone's .edu or.ac.uk or whatever
- jedanbik 10y agoI believe a .org would be most appropriate here. Thinking about http://opendap.org/node/305 http://opendap.org/node/305 for context. [What is OPeNDAP: http://opendap.org/about http://opendap.org/about]
- ieee8023 10y agoWe have academictorrents.org too!
- iamjeff 10y agoHi Mr. Cohen (?). Thanks for taking the time to make this publicly available.
- ieee8023 10y agoDr. Cohen! But I don't care about titles. Thanks for posting about it! Do you know a hacker news post launched the site in 2014? I was chatting about it at an event in Boston and someone posted it on here and it went crazy. The machines we had hosting data had their 20Mbps connections maxed out for weeks. Now we are prepared and it's just another day! Here is one of the plots from 2014: https://i.imgur.com/Ecr44AZ.png https://i.imgur.com/Ecr44AZ.png
- iamjeff 10y agoWoah! That screengrab is a mess at that tail end- massive traffic, not to mention that this went on for weeks. Regardless, this is an amazingly useful tool that a n00b like myself finds useful(going forward). Thank you, Daktari (Swahili for "doctor").
- mdda 10y agoPostDocs may have a bad rap, but 'subhuman' is going a bit far...
- privong 10y ago> PostDocs may have a bad rap, but 'subhuman' is going a bit far... That may have been an autocorrect "correction" of the word "subdomain".
- turc1656 10y agoTheir content is not illegal whatsoever. They are not like Sci-hub where the content is actually owned by someone else. On Academic Torrents, the submissions are made by people who have chosen to share their work on this platform rather than submitting to an academic journal.
- aab0 10y agoAcademic journals* rarely host large datasets (it's fairly unusual to even see some PDF supplements with vital summaries or results), and if you want to share data >10MB, you're mostly stuck doing it yourself through your own website or some institution's, or not sharing it at all. Also, academic datasets aren't free of copyright concerns. Consider the famous Imagenet dataset for image classification. It's made of a million images pulled from Google Images. Did they get each photographs' creators' permission for such unlimited redistribution? Of course not. But there's no way the 'implied license' of posting a photo online extends that far... Like so much of the Internet, it's only possible in the absence of enforcement of copyright law. * which is particularly frustrating because academic publishers make such enormous profits and hosting large datasets is exactly the sort of thing they should be doing if they were remotely interested in supporting science rather than making more money
- ieee8023 10y agoWe have not had an issue since 2013. All the content "must be legal to share" as stated on our upload page.