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It's worth emphasizing that this is merely the first step in an attempt to provide a long-term backup of the archive. Besides that, the project appears to be in
by class4behavior 5y ago
It's worth emphasizing that this is merely the first step in an attempt to provide a long-term backup of the archive. Besides that, the project appears to be in need of help in order to restart downloading new papers, which apparently has been discontinued in December 2020, and maybe also a more robust storage solution for its live operation.
- etiam 5y agoAccording to a piece of discussion recently (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27088530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27088530) the stop for adding new papers seems to be voluntary and motivated by complying with a request in an Indian court process. Under the circumstances I'm sure they could use help and development with that stage anyway, but it's not clear to me that whatever system was in place until last year has been put out of commission more permanently.
- titoCA321 5y agoWhy is sci-hub complying with Indian courts and worried about American law enforcement if sci-hub is in Russia?
- AmIDev 5y agoAlexandra mentioned that she didn't want this project to be illegal forever. Why India specifically? Probably because the same court has previously decided that photocopying books for personal use is fair-use, as long as no profit is being made. Being legal in India would be a huge benefit. sci-hub could be hosted on a .in domain with servers hosted in India. No more cat and mouse game.