Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by Aelius on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:09AM (#16637681)

Sci hub seems like the perfect candidate for ipfs, I'm astounded the mirrors haven't implementated that yet.

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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by JustFinishedBSG on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:59AM (#16638009)

We just need decentralized DNS for sci-hub, storage isn't needed (right now).

Plus sci-hub storage requirements are pretty big, >75 Tb...

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Re:Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub by zaarn on Thursday March 22, 2018 @07:28AM (#16647646)

A dataset at the scale of Scihub would have to pay someone to keep all the various PDFs online (which IIRC is around 70TB by now), which would mean a DMCA or N&T or similar would take down paid IPFS hosters.

I'm not sure how many people would willingly play IPFS hoster for 70TB datasets for free and while not giving a shit about authorities knocking on the door.

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