"... but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die." This article in Science suggests otherwise: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-d

"... but it seems like if anything happens to her sci-hub will die." This article in Science suggests otherwise: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pira... "Even if arrested, Elbakyan says Sci-Hub will not go dark. She has failsafes to keep it up and running, and user donations now cover the cost of Sci-Hub's servers. She also notes that the entire collection of 50 million papers has been copied by others many times already. "[The papers] do not need to be downloaded again from universities.""