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are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts.
All other URLs should be considered unofficial or scams.
SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase.
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hub
Real organization, coincidentally a very similar domain and area of work.
VirusTotal includes some very poor quality Chinese AVs that produce positives for nearly every file. PDFs are pretty damn safe to access today -- the days of exploding macro exploits are about a decade behind us.
It's hard to believe, but it's certainly happened/happening -- plenty of democratic countries are filtering the internet, like Turkey.
comics is not a public dataset -- it's privately run and managed, so there are no mirrors for it. I guess someone could scrape it.
/r/datahoarder is currently seeding 2.5 million books, if anyone is interested in starting their own library. With a little SQL work you can have the world's knowledge on a single 8TB.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ed9byj/library...
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