Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine

Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by agumonkey on Sunday June 25, 2017 @07:58PM (#14632941)

It seems cloneable, scihub is backed by libgen which receives every proxied document and serve them as torrents (with stable availability). Also the files db is public. It's a bit large in total, something like 20TB for all files, 200MB db dump.

Still the sci hub proxy is indeed a single point of failure, but people could mirror the already stored part. I'd do it if I had a team.

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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by goodplay on Sunday June 25, 2017 @08:53PM (#14633162)

Are the files categorized? While I can't mirror the whole thing, I'm more than willing to archive the categories that are relevant to my interests.

I think the single point of failure issue can be easily remedied if people could easily back specific parts of libgen/scihub.

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Re:Scientific research piracy site hit with $15M fine by agumonkey on Monday June 26, 2017 @02:45AM (#14634585)

I don't remember the db schema but it's highly possible there were domains/categories. I remember publisher/editor (which could be a nice filter).

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