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    Comment #27095630

    It should read (partially) empowered by Sci-Hub, since they host an archive of Sci-Hub.

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    Comment #27095619

    They only host PDFs and EPUBs, so there's no software involved.

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    Comment #25697129

    https://sci-hub.do https://sci-hub.st https://sci-hub.se are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts. All other URLs should be …

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    Comment #25697113

    It's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is. SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase. https://www.crunchbase…

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    Comment #25697088

    That's a scam site. Visit the official VK page for real links.

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    Comment #25217792

    Some of your concerns are addressed in the wiki on freeread.org: http://freeread.org/reddit-libgen/ VirusTotal includes some very poor quality Chinese AVs that produce positives fo…

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    Comment #25217762

    I have heard that certain countries ISPs break HTTPS, that might be one reason. It's hard to believe, but it's certainly happened/happening -- plenty of democratic countries are fi…

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    Comment #25217735

    scitech is there, it's relabeled "Educational." 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.

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    Comment #22066393

    Such a small collection. It's incredible that no governments are stepping up to preserve humanity's and their country's knowledge as a digital library. /r/datahoarder is currently …

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    Comment #22052624

    Imagine a species having the capacity to share every bit of its knowledge, with every one of its people, and choosing not to do so. Calling all PHP, SQL, Elastic Search, distribute…

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    Comment #22009130

    A few people are active trying to modernize the database code for Sci-Hub's sister project. PHP and SQL experts needed, it seems. https://gitlab.com/libgen1

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    Comment #22009111

    Because (shh) it's a secret. Survival through camouflage.