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Also, marginally less likely to suddenly vanish in a poof of lawsuit one day. See Napster.
by hyperbovine 7y ago
Also, marginally less likely to suddenly vanish in a poof of lawsuit one day. See Napster.
- jacquesm 7y agoBut storage costs have dropped by orders of magnitude since then and 'personal copies' of SciHub are a definite possibility.
- IronBacon 7y agoI've read somewhere a couple of years ago that SciHub was about 35TB of data, quite big but still manageable.
- snaky 7y ago$800, considering $200 for one 10TB HDD.
- jacquesm 7y agoIt's a bit more now, going on 80T or so. Still quite manageable. A large NAS will do.
- m1el 7y agoI just happen to have a 80T NAS that I plan to use as a sci-hub mirror, is there a way to download it? libgen torrents are dead.
- jacquesm 7y agoemail?
- IronBacon 7y agoSo if the 35TB figure was correct a few years ago, I didn't expect now to be more than doubled. Do you happen to know if it's only SciHub or it also includes Libgen? If it's only SciHub that's a lot of papers... ^__^;
- jacquesm 7y agoJust scihub.
- mirimir 7y agoWell, there are torrents available, if you have the storage. I'm confident that there are many backups. And the data could be hosted in takedown-resistant ways. It arguably is already, in Russia. Given the current political situation, I doubt that Putin would sell them out.