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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by marcosdumay on Thursday May 05, 2016 @06:49PM (#11640276)
Does anybody know the total size of the repository?
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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by DarkLinkXXXX on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:05PM (#11641190)
Not AFAIK, but you good get a good idea by downloading all the torrent files, and extracting the torrent size from the metadata. Or maybe just download 1 torrent (since there's over 500 of them, one per 100k files), and multiply the average size per file.
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Re:Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name by toomuchtodo on Thursday May 05, 2016 @09:59PM (#11641173)
~50TB
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