> It always seemed unlikely that Sci-Hub’s archive was entirely contributed by concerned citizens. Note that Sci-Hub's model wasn't concerned citizens uploadin

> It always seemed unlikely that Sci-Hub’s archive was entirely contributed by concerned citizens. Note that Sci-Hub's model wasn't concerned citizens uploading articles, but academics (allegedly, at least) sharing their credentials and Sci-Hub using those to download requested articles if they didn't have it in their own caches yet. With that method, it seems a lot less unlikely to me that a relatively small number of academics could have "contributed" many articles.