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Isn't SciHub just a rich "client" for LibGen?
by tosers4 6y ago
Isn't SciHub just a rich "client" for LibGen?
- toomuchtodo 6y agoImplementation detail I gloss over for the audience.
- 411111111111111 6y agoWould you call Netflix a rich client for s3 though? I think there is value in the destinction if it's only used as a storage backend, but actually gets the media through different sources.
- toomuchtodo 6y agoNo, I'd call Netflix a rich client for Netflix's OpenConnect appliance network. To be clear, I have a deep appreciation for SciHub and LibGen, I just don't have the energy to dive in depth in this forum.
- 411111111111111 6y agoI thought the openconnect network was basically just a cache which tries to serve popular media directly from the providers? They didn't have enough storage for their full library on the appliances previously. So that'd be like a caching proxy in front of the service Maybe that changed with how tiny their library became over the years. (Edit:it didn't change. That's what it is.)
- notriddle 6y agoSciHub is a web service that downloads papers on demand. In addition to serving the paper up, they also send a backup to LibGen, making LibGen's scientific paper section an archive of SciHub.