trivial but handy bookmarklet link for scihub:
javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.bz/'+window.locationElsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
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Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does. Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement. I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing. Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server? Edit: I kn…
echo "google.com 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
Yeah, I recommend against this particular example :)
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Should publisher's work be free? I think not. What value does the publisher's work add to the work the author generated?
Presumably the value in a journal publisher is: a) it's name, being accepted to certain journals is an indicator of quality b) to readers who are guaranteed published works have been peer reviewed That being said I'm not a massive fan and I believe there is probably a model whereby you can get these value-adds without the closed down subscription system. Publicly funded research should be publicly available.
Sorry but its name!
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#44Long live Aaron Swartz
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#45I feel a little tingle of excitement seeing my own papers on Sci-Hub. I mean I get that they're trying to index all publications so it's not a "stamp or approval" or anything... but it does mean that people can actually access the knowledge I tried to throw into the world, which was kind of the whole point in doing it.
I'd update my academic website to link my papers to their sci-hub URLs if I didn't think I'd catch a world of flak for it.
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#46"As a result of the legal battle the site (sci-hub.io) just lost one of its latest domain names. However, the site has no intentions of backing down, and will continue its fight to keep access to scientific knowledge free and open." Does this not enrage people? Elsevier and closed-access journals like them, are doing all they can to impede human progress while leaching off of tax-payer dollars to do so. Something sho…
The onus is on the scientists. Elsevier does its job. If you were given a golden ring as a gift every day, I bet you would end up opening a jewelry shop as well. Even if scientists want to use alternative open access publishers, it's a game of who blinks first. They won't do it because their colleagues don't.
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#47(Thanks for daveguy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593881 ) https://31.184.194.81/ (sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.cc (same ip as above, sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.ac (same ip as above, sci-hub.io cert) https://sci-hub.bz (uses a separate certificate and ip address -- 104.28.20.155) And a tor site: scihub22266oqcxt.onion
Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does. Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement. I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing. Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server? Edit: I kn…
For the locking feature I'm not sure, but there are alternative DNS networks such as https://www.opennicproject.org
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#48On the bright side, this will give some much-needed publicity to Tor Browser. Sci-hub is still available at http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/
Does using Tor puts you on some kind of list? It would be tragic if someone used Tor to read a scientific article but then got charged with aiding terrorism or looking for child pornography.
We re all in lists. In fact, the more lists we're in, the less traceable we are.
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#49While I support open science and Sci-Hub is great, I also can see publisher's side. Imagine the same site with pirated high quality scientific books. (There are some, but in darker corners of the Internet). Would open access to these books be advantageous for humanity? Most definitely. Will publishers get mad about it? Even more definitely. Should publisher's work be free? I think not. However, you can't get both sid…
> Should publisher's work be free?
Publishers work is not needed, it can be distributed among authors who can do it at a negligible cost.
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#50Domain names should not, in principle, be subject to the arbitrary edicts of governments. I hope that, in the future, we switch to a decentralised and cryptographically incorruptible system a la Namecoin.