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The worrying thing is that now there's a single point of failure: Elbakyan. She has the power to cut off anyone she wants to, and she did it in the past to some Russian university that dared criticize her.

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Do your part and start mirroring parts of it! http://libgen.io/scimag/repository_torrent/

Okay. I've got a dedicated seed box but it is only DSL. I have ample disk space.

What am I looking at, at that link? Is there a 'mirror the whole damned thing' torrent and how frequently should I update this?

I already mirror a bunch of Linux ISOs, so it's not a problem to add more.

Looking at the dates on the file list, I suspect not, and that the way you keep up to date is to keep adding the new torrents as they come out.

Since torrents are immutable it makes sense... would otherwise be a pain to update.

I'll add the most recent. Thanks.

Be aware that this is huge: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Library_Genesis

I will have to spin up some spare drives and it's going to take a while. I'll do the SciMag, though it will take a few months to synch it all. I've got spare driver and will actually end up needing to set them in a new box. I've been meaning to do this project for a while but lacked a good reason.

Thanks.

Have fun and thanks!

I guess anyone who wants to take on the legal risk is welcome to start up their own version hosted on IPFS.

That's pretty funny, at least if their criticism was that Sci-Hub shouldn't exist.

No there isn't - anyone can pirate the pirated stuff off of sci hub.

That was really catty.

Story time: https://www.thebookseller.com/news/elbakyan-pulls-sci-hub-ru...

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