Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names

Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by jerheinze on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:57PM (#16313025)

First off, there's a difference between Sci-Hub (no content is hosted, only a portal) and LibGen. Papers downloaded from Sci-Hub are hosted in the latter. And secondly, they do offer torrents as a P2P solution: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/

I'm not familiar enough with IPFS, but I think once onions play nicely with IPFS (i.e. when this is solved[1]), then it could be very promising. I'm not sure how censorship resistant it could be.

[1] : https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/37

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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by akerro on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @09:56AM (#16316544)

> they do offer torrents as a P2P solution: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/repository_torrent/

yes, that's the problem. Once you have a torrent they can't add new files to the torrent, they have to make a new one, and you have to download the new one.

Also this website is blocked in the UK.

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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by jerheinze on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:09AM (#16316662)

> Also this website is blocked in the UK.

Use the Tor Browser to access it: https://torproject.org/download

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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by akerro on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:34PM (#16317810)

I have a VPN at home.

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