I just wanted to take a moment to say what a lifechanging tool sci-hub has been for research. In doing research for a big writing project on Mars I ended up with a folder of maybe 800 scientific and technical papers, some of them dating back to 1910. This is material it would have been hard to collect even with access to a major university library. Online publishers, meanwhile, demand extortionate per-paper fees for access, including to papers that started in the public domain, or are long out of copyright. On sci-hub you can just find nearly all this stuff without any fuss—there were maybe 5 or 10 papers total that I had to find through other channels. Alexandra Elbakyan is an absolute legend for creating this tool, which is on a par with Wikipedia for usefulness and public benefit.
A domain is just a pointer to a resource, it is not the 'thing' in itself. If they want to take the actual resource offline, they need to find the VPS in question and confiscate that, not the domains.<p>Another thing, SH used to be accessible as a Tor hidden service, located here[0], which needs a v3 address since the older short .onions are now obsolete. Tor should have been the rightful home of SH since its inception. .Onions/hidden services are more resistant to censorship.<p>And since the admin has been doxxed, it's too late, unless the project is forked to new (anonymous) owners with good opsec and starts its new home in the dark web, unless it has new owners. I don't know, I don't follow all the latest news on SH.<p>[0] <a href="http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/" rel="nofollow">http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/</a>
Is the pause mentioned here still in place?<p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/lofj0r/announcement_scihub_has_been_paused_no_new/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/lofj0r/announcement...</a>
Little known fact: your Sci-Hub downloads are not private - <a href="https://sci-hub.ru/stats" rel="nofollow">https://sci-hub.ru/stats</a> has historic access logs with IP addresses, paper identifiers, and timestamps, and plans to publish more logs in the future.
It's really handy that they keep trying to damage sci-hub.<p>I've got no direct use but every time it comes up I have a think just in case I know anyone it would be useful for.<p>Ta for the reminders!
I've found this to be helpful:<p><a href="https://www.ilovephd.com/working-sci-hub-proxy-links-updated/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ilovephd.com/working-sci-hub-proxy-links-updated...</a>
Given how useful scihub obviously is, how could we reasonably make it legal? Is there any chance we could fix the legal system to make scihub officially possible?
they should just mention that the content is only available for people to train their ML model<p>Microsoft can get away with it, we might as well do the same
Decentralized DNS protocols like handshake were created to circumvent this kind of thing.<p><a href="https://handshake.org/" rel="nofollow">https://handshake.org/</a>
I mentioned here before, but how can we stop these domains from dying like this: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34541672" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34541672</a>