Oh no! I'm seeing it down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/whereisscihub.now.sh Sending HugOps to everyone at Zeit trying to keep 99.99% uptime for now.sh at a time like this
It’s serverless, it can’t be down. What’s going on here?
Where Sci-Hub Is
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#22HTTP 451
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#23Oh no! I'm seeing it down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/whereisscihub.now.sh Sending HugOps to everyone at Zeit trying to keep 99.99% uptime for now.sh at a time like this
There are no issues with the platform ( https://zeit-status.co/ ). The deploy has been blocked due to ToS violations.
What terms?
Edit: I didn’t know Sci-Hub was illegal.
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#24Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it. However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to giv…
Scientists don’t get paid anything regardless of whether or not you pay a subscription/article fee to the science journals. The best thing to do to benefit scientists (usually) is to spread awareness of their work, as that is the main currency in academia that determines career advancement and future fundraising. Ideally you’re promoting it to other academics (so that they generate trackable citations), but general publicity also helps.
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#25I'm getting a 451... Did zeit.now take this down?
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#26Sci-Hub is such a marvelous resource. I like to read research papers for fun sometimes but I'm, let's put it gently, no scientist. So it'd be a huge waste of money for me to pay the steep prices of scientific journal subscriptions just to read 1-2 articles per month where I understand at most 75% of it. However, I still feel bad about accessing them without any benefit to the scientific teams. Is there any way to giv…
Those teams receive nothing from publishing either, other than CV credit and occasionally, a copy of the journal. Many of them put their pre-prints on academia.edu and often will email it to you if you ask.
It's complicated, but places like Wiley and Elsevier take much more than they give.
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#27Oh no! I'm seeing it down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/whereisscihub.now.sh Sending HugOps to everyone at Zeit trying to keep 99.99% uptime for now.sh at a time like this
There are no issues with the platform ( https://zeit-status.co/ ). The deploy has been blocked due to ToS violations.
Sounds like an issue with the platform to me.
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#28I am of the opinion knowledge should be free and easily accessible. Research papers through sci-hub only helps to make knowledge easily accessible. Humanity's progress depends on people who shared their knowledge, not by people who use it as a tool to rule and hold on to power. It will be nicer if whole sci-hub is able to move to IPFS network and accessible through a domain. The problem is IPFS do not offer anonymity…
IPFS is actually a better fit for this than it might appear.
It doesn't pro-actively replicate content, so it isn't like bit torrent where everyone is uploading.
Instead, it provides resilience, where the actual location of sci-hub could move around, but requesters could still get access to the content. The rest of the network acts to help with routing, but won't be serving data they haven't accessed themselves.
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#29I'm getting a 451... Did zeit.now take this down?
For reference, 451 Unavailable for Legal Reasons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451
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#30Oh no! I'm seeing it down. https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/whereisscihub.now.sh Sending HugOps to everyone at Zeit trying to keep 99.99% uptime for now.sh at a time like this
There are no issues with the platform ( https://zeit-status.co/ ). The deploy has been blocked due to ToS violations.
When I tried loading the page, it timed out, whereas now I'm getting an immediate 451