I've seen estimates of the total sci-hub/libgen size at anywhere from 20TB to 75+TB. Probably there are lots of dupes in there, and a dedicated dedup effort could reduce that size by a bit.<p>But taking the upper end: A WD Black 10 TB platter drive[0] costs $329, which means it would take only $2700 or so to have enough storage space to archive what's basically the sum total of human scientific knowledge.<p>[0] - <a href="https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-desktop-sata-hdd#WD101FZBX" rel="nofollow">https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-...</a>
As a college student who have actively used LibGen for books and even for books for personal self development which I couldn’t afford at that time.<p>I have special place in my heart for these people as they are persevering knowledge and making sure everyone gets access to it<p>As they say knowledge is power
If you would like to help out you can seed some at risk torrents which can be found here —> <a href="https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php" rel="nofollow">https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php</a><p>For more information you can visit u/shrine’s original post here —> <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitable_seeding_for_nonprofit_scientific/" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/seedboxes/comments/e129yi/charitabl...</a>
It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy.<p>I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
Recently Mega took down a popular ethereum miner download for no given reason. Underground archival is much more difficult than people give credit for. Most vpn's being U.S. based are well within logging laws + secret court orders. TOR just this week had hundreds of exit nodes flooded in for an attempted deanonymization attack. It's tough times for being a data share.
> Library Genesis is powered by Sci-Hub<p>I thought sci-hub and library genesis were independent projects?<p>At any rate, I applaud those who are willing to stick their neck out somewhat to stand up for all of us students, scientists and engineers who need access to the material on Library Genesis.