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LuckySteves · 3270 days ago · link · · parent · post: Sci-hub: the first pirate website in the world to provide mass and public access to tens of millions of research papers
Wow, that's unbelievable. It provided an identical pdf of a journal as my university's library database. I wonder how long it'll last; this is an impressive collection of mostly secured papers.
DarkLinkXXXX · 3270 days ago · link ·
Well, they have been doing it since 2011, so I have to imagine they're be able to do it for a good while longer. Regardless, if SHTF, the technology will still be there, and it will be up to them to pass the baton to someone else. I kinda wish they would open-source their scraper though, but I guess they worry that that'd make it more difficult for them.
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LuckySteves · 3270 days ago · link ·
I'd like to think that the people who have the power to shut it down, choose not to.
user-inactivated · 3270 days ago · link ·
Elsevier has a lawsuit going against them and got their domain seized, but that was just an annoyance.