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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by ycmbntrthrwaway on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:06PM (#14632189)
Library Genesis is a caching backend for scihub. Scihub is a number of proxies, but already downloaded articles are not going anywhere in case of takedown.

Libgen offers torrent and usenet downloads.

The best way to help is by joining https://genofond.org/viewtopic.php?p=9000/ and working on mirrors, software and all kinds of related projects. Donations are great, but decentralization can't happen if no new members are joining the librarian community.

See "14. How do I upload papers to the Scientific Article section? Is it possible at all?" on how to upload articles you downloaded via scihub to libgen.

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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by macsj200 on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:20PM (#14632254)
I get a cert revoked error when visiting that site in Chrome 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit)
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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by ycmbntrthrwaway on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:24PM (#14632278)
It is signed by WoSign. Firefox is ok with it for now, but StartCom and WoSign are going to be removed eventually in favor of Let's Encrypt.

See https://security.googleblog.com/2016/10/distrusting-wosign-a...

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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by Normal_gaussian on Sunday June 25, 2017 @05:41PM (#14632352)
Not removed in favour of Let's Encrypt, removed for them not being good CA's - but it doesn't `matter` because we now have Let's Encrypt
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