You should checkout libgen-seedtools<p><a href="https://github.com/subdavis/libgen-seedtools" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/subdavis/libgen-seedtools</a><p>The sci-hub archive is partly supported by libgen.rs. To ensure that their content remains accessible, they have thousands of very large torrents, many of which are not well seeded. If you have a few TB of disk space and bandwidth to spare, it's a good way to help out.
I don't think scihub is the future. OpenAccess is the future. I know that in the UK you basically <i>have</i> to post your accepted papers in publicly accessible repositories if you want your papers to count for the Research Excellent Framework exercise (which basically compares Universities every 5 years). I know many grants now have openaccess requirements. Plus in the field like physics, basically everyone posts the papers to arxiv anyway.
For all the cryptocurrency, distributed, anti-censorship, anonymous filestorage projects from the past few years, where the hell are they all?<p>Cryptocoin community: hosting SciHub should be your platform's Litmus Test. If you can't do this one thing, your anonymous, decentralised, anti-censorship platform is a scam, so GTFO.
How about building anonymous cheap low power low key esp32 paper downloaders a la aaron schwartz. How about starting pirate clubs in universities all over the world.
One thing that I would like to see is a clone of SciHub that allowed new submissions. SciHub is not accepting submissions because the founder is waiting for the results of a process in India. This could take many years.<p>Of course, the persons who make a clone will have to be brave, because they will face the same problems that Alexandra Elbakyan has faced.
Authors, publish your papers in your personal webpage. Do not promote paywalls. To all others, donate and support decentralization efforts. To those that are particularly wealthy, please think about supporting financially too
We need a Firefox/Chrome extension that prominently points you to the arXiv PDF of an article when you visit a publication page with a research paywall, and upload it if it hasn't been uploaded . There's already a place to and process to legally upload papers(as preprints in Arxiv) it is just a matter for making it heavily public and accessible.