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Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by dbasedweeb »

raister wrote: post #17

Is this legal?

Sometimes what’s legal is incredibly immoral, and what’s moral isn’t legal. “I didnt break any laws” can be a very thin shield to hide behind at times. By the same token, breaking some laws can be the right thing to do, although that won’t necessaril shield you from legal consequences. For concrete examples of legal yet immoral, see Jim Crow, Segregation, slavery, and present day prison work. For illegal yet moral, selling pot to a cancer patient, spreading the sum of human knowledge far and wide, etc.

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

Not being in a scientific field, one of the previous times this came up I asked if any of the working scientists felt like SciHub had positively impacted their work: exposing them to more papers than they would have read, guiding them in different ways, etc. and the answer was a pretty overwhelming "ohmygodyes".

From the outside, it's very difficult to see this as anything but a public good. It certainly seems like literally the entire world is benefitting from this (including the scientists involved in the publishing) and its being held back by a handful of publishers.

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Post by userbinator »

nneonneo wrote: post #14

The total collection is 54.54 TiB, with 690 torrents as of writing. For preservation purposes, I put magnet links to all the torrents here: https://pastebin.com/zTAqS7wz So, even if the torrents go away, the magnet links should still be usable. (Edited: fixed link)

What I find more amazing than the fact that some people have been so neighbourly as to share such a volume of information, is that this is still just a tiny fraction of all human knowledge. Scientific journals are certainly an important collection, but still miniscule in comparison to all the other books out there. I have collected ~20GB of automotive service manuals and related data, and that's a tiny amount too. To speak nothing of the many terabytes of entertainment others have...

Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by facetube »

mapt wrote: post #20
raister wrote: post #17

Is this legal?

Of course not. Copyright law is extraordinarily restrictive, and you, me, and everybody you know is guilty of violation after violation, easily enough to bankrupt hundreds of millions of people if strict enforcement were applied. SciHub is all normal copyrighted published work; The publishers claim the same commercial status as an album or novel. The fact that there are currently 69 million works bundled means that w…

You wouldn't be fined. You'd be arrested and charged criminally, and likely spend the rest of your life in jail. The public does not understand and would happily hang you for being one of those evil hackers. The person who tells them you belong there would be a $1000/hour professional witness.

Infinite-term copyright builds dynasties. They do not take kindly to competition. Stay safe.

Re: Sci Hub repository torrents of scientific papers

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Post by userbinator »

nneonneo wrote: post #26
kanzure wrote: post #24

Does anyone have a complete copy? The seeds are very slow. I know someone willing to pay for this data. Shoot me an email.

The _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?

I think tape would probably be the best choice --- a single LTO-7 tape cartridge holds 6TB and costs <$100USD. Of course the drive is quite expensive, but HDDs are less reliable and more expensive per GB.
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