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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by mariuolo on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:25PM (#14869130)
> I guess another important part is that it's the universities' connection that scihub 'uploaders' tunnel through that are key

Does this happen in realtime? I read that sci-hub sometimes uses credentials from legitimate users, but in that case they would be easily identified.

So, perhaps someone with access submits papers on request? And if so, what about watermarking?

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by kanzure on Thursday July 27, 2017 @06:27PM (#14870238)
> And if so, what about watermarking?

years ago i recommended to scihub that they should use https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia but they weren't too concerned.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by _delirium on Thursday July 27, 2017 @04:32PM (#14869180)
Plenty of the papers I've gotten from scihub are watermarked. The "downloaded by [IP] at [timestamp]" footer could probably be stripped, but they don't appear to do so, or at least not consistently.
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