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It's hard to imagine how a legal service could be better than Sci-hub. You could make it as good as sci-hub, but how could you make it easier than "paste DOI -> PDF is downloaded"?

Steam beats video game piracy because video game piracy requires shit like having a torrent client or having a friend who has a copy already. Video game piracy was never as easy as sci-hub.

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Just make it _as good_. Add legitimacy at the same level of convenience and you win.

I'd pay $10 a month if addition to pasting a doi -> pdf, that I could also search backward and forward along citations. I'd love to be able to download a paper and everything it references.

Iirc that's pretty much why TBL invented the web, so you could click on references in scientific papers. It'd be nice if we could actually do that.

I'd probably be willing to pay $30/month for that. Of course they would have to actually have all or most of those backward and forward references available.

As other commenters have responded, being able to navigate the DAG of citations would be a nice value add.

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