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> It will be nicer if whole sci-hub is able to move to IPFS network and accessible through a domain. I think you have an misconception about how sci-hub works.

> It will be nicer if whole sci-hub is able to move to IPFS network and accessible through a domain. I think you have an misconception about how sci-hub works. Most of the content you can access trough sci-hub is not hosted by sci-hub, what happens when you request a fresh new paper is that your request is eventually served by a computer in the network of one of the universities with subscription to the journal which published that paper, using donated or stolen credentials of some high profile scientists if needed. Sci-hub already uses IPFS to cache some papers, it can not move to IPFS network because it is not a library of content like LibGen (which is often confused to) but an actual hub which decides how to serve your request in real time.

dragonsh 7y ago
Thanks for clarifying it, I didn't know that it uses stored credentials to serve. Still it will be nice if there is a decentralized network storing these papers in case those journals go away or out of business. This research papers are anyways funded indirectly and authors of this paper are not really dependent on income from these papers, but the resulting data, experiments and experience they gained while working on it. Reading these papers is only a very small step to know something, but a necessary one.
Vinnl 7y ago
Sci-Hub only access is through a university network if it's the first time anyone has requested that article through Sci-Hub. It does cache the result on its own servers, though, so subsequent requests will be served from those. (It used to cache them on LibGen, and I think it does still store them there, but I seem to recall it now uses its own servers as well.)
einpoklum 7y ago
What do you mean, "stolen". They are _used_, not stolen.
- llllllllllllII 7y ago
  You’re right since digital content cannot be stolen, but it is well documented that some of the accounts are “used” via phishing, brute forcing and zero day exploits on the university/library’s platform, which is perhaps what GP meant.
  - einpoklum 7y ago
    Is it well-documented that such actions are used to obtain account credentials for Sci-Hub? I've not heard of this.
yupyup54133 7y ago
Sounds like a perfect use-case for skynet: https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34 https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34

dragonsh 7y ago

Thanks for clarifying it, I didn't know that it uses stored credentials to serve. Still it will be nice if there is a decentralized network storing these papers in case those journals go away or out of business. This research papers are anyways funded indirectly and authors of this paper are not really dependent on income from these papers, but the resulting data, experiments and experience they gained while working on it. Reading these papers is only a very small step to know something, but a necessary one.

Vinnl 7y ago

Sci-Hub only access is through a university network if it's the first time anyone has requested that article through Sci-Hub. It does cache the result on its own servers, though, so subsequent requests will be served from those. (It used to cache them on LibGen, and I think it does still store them there, but I seem to recall it now uses its own servers as well.)

einpoklum 7y ago

What do you mean, "stolen". They are _used_, not stolen.

llllllllllllII 7y ago
You’re right since digital content cannot be stolen, but it is well documented that some of the accounts are “used” via phishing, brute forcing and zero day exploits on the university/library’s platform, which is perhaps what GP meant.
- einpoklum 7y ago
  Is it well-documented that such actions are used to obtain account credentials for Sci-Hub? I've not heard of this.

yupyup54133 7y ago

Sounds like a perfect use-case for skynet: https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34 https://blog.sia.tech/skynet-bdf0209d6d34