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Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers by foo101 on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @06:25AM (#15540564)
Can someone briefly describe how decentralization is achieved in archive.org?
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Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers by paulhilbert on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:11AM (#15540722)
As far as I can tell the storage is quite centralized. At least I remember them allegedly moving all their porcelain to Canada when that elephant entered the room...
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Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers by psittacus on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @09:15AM (#15541259)
Not moving, but copying. Here's the source:

https://blog.archive.org/2016/11/29/help-us-keep-the-archive...

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Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers by stevemclaugh on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:46PM (#15543524)
Most items on Archive.org have torrent files, so there's some degree of (potential) decentralization. They run their own tracker, but in principle the torrents could live on via DHT. Most are poorly seeded, however.

They also have multiple backups in other locations.

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Re:Sci-Hub: Public access to research papers by pseud0r on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @07:22AM (#15540770)
It's not.
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