> Now, instead of having to deal with all those requests, Sci-hub can point users to this market to get the paper instead of eating up its limited personal reso

> Now, instead of having to deal with all those requests, Sci-hub can point users to this market to get the paper instead of eating up its limited personal resources. The problem is not the limited resources of sci-hub, but that sci-hub actively decided to stop updating its database: > https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/205911/why-did-sci-hub-stop-uploading-papers https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/205911/why-did-... This is actually the reason for the huge increase of the number of requests as the article explicitly admits: > "The number of such requests increased in the past two years, since Sci-Hub database updates were paused." > https://sci-hub.se/sci-net https://sci-hub.se/sci-net