> I think a good way to keep the cause alive is to backup or mirror the 85,483,811 papers hosted on Sci-Hub. There's already an effort where the data is broken

> I think a good way to keep the cause alive is to backup or mirror the 85,483,811 papers hosted on Sci-Hub. There's already an effort where the data is broken up into 100GB chunks [1]. Looks like the entire database is duplicated now at least 10 times. [2] > Anyone remember Napster? There were extremely obscure musical recordings that were instantly found on Napster that are impossible to find even today. That existed (and still exists) - there was oink.cd, then what.cd, and now RED. But each incarnation has lost things. Each time you burn down the library, you're bound to lose something. It's disappointing there isn't a legal way of cultural preservation. We need something like a crowd sourced digital library. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... [2] https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/stats-filtered-table.php?propname%5B%5D=seeders&comp%5B%5D=%3C&value%5B%5D=12&propname%5B%5D=type&comp%5B%5D===&value%5B%5D=scimag https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/stats-filtered-ta...