There's a telegram bot that sends you the papers you ask for. It's by far the most convenient way to use scihub.
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#22What is forcing these UK ISPs to block these IP ranges?
The government have passed quite a few bills this year aimed at locking down on this kind of thing whilst people were pre-occupied with COVID.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#23Just setup a VPN on some cheap cloud provider. There are lots of sites UK ISPs block even though the sites themselves are not illegal or host illegal content. For e.g. torrent indexing services (the content itself may be illegal but purely providing a search across that content is basically doing what Google do). The UK internet is heavily filtered/censored and so doing this is useful anyway. Business ISP connections…
I travelled last week, and was horrified by how much is blocked by the mainstream ISPs in the UK.
Afaik, my (London) ISP does not block anything. No idea why, as all the others quote high court orders.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#24By the way, Sci-Hub has stopped adding new articles to the database for a few months now (background: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els... ). It would be great to develop a truly decentralised solution. Having a database of individual torrent links for each paper might be a start.
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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#25What is forcing these UK ISPs to block these IP ranges?
I don't know. Virgin Media quote High Court orders saying they have to block several I tried, but my home ISP does not block any of them. These seems weird to me, that the court orders would cover a few specific ISPs, but I haven't looked in to it further.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#26By the way, Sci-Hub has stopped adding new articles to the database for a few months now (background: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els... ). It would be great to develop a truly decentralised solution. Having a database of individual torrent links for each paper might be a start.
Millions of individual torrents is not a great solution. Keeping them all seeded is basically impossible unless they run a seed for each one, at which point they might as well just host the files. Plus you'll never get the economy of scale that makes BitTorrent really shine.
When you have a whole lot of tiny files that people will generally only want one or two of there isn't much better than a plain old website.
A torrent that hosts all of the papers could be useful for people who want to make sure the data can't be lost by a single police raid.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#27GreenTunnel is another alternative to evade ISP blocking without using a VPN:
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#28By the way, Sci-Hub has stopped adding new articles to the database for a few months now (background: https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/mk46x4/scihub_v_els... ). It would be great to develop a truly decentralised solution. Having a database of individual torrent links for each paper might be a start.
IPFS seems like a perfect fit for this and some of the scihub torrents are already in IPFS, but it's not an anonymous network.
IPFS via the DHT tells the network of your whole network topology, including internal address you may have, and VPN endpoints too. It's all public by design as they don't want to associate IPFS with piracy per one of their developers.
this thread has some discussions on the alternatives https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#29Seems like this is a really good service to add some legitimacy to Tor browsing. Having SciHub as a hidden service would bring a lot of people to Tor. EDIT: apparently I'm a bit stupid; it exists: https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion But it would be cool to promote the hell out of the onion address and tor browser, rather than trying to bypass ISP restrictions.
Possibly also a path to greater decentralization. Relying on jurisdictional stuff isn't going to cut it forever (see the current pause on new uploads), but it's also hard to ask people to host data that'll get them sued without offering mitigations. Private torrent trackers do that through, well, being private, but I'm sure as hell not serving springer_catalogue_2020.tar.xz to the whole internet from an address linked to me in any way. Maybe an index of independently operated hidden services, each serving a (redundant) shard of the collection?
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#30Obviously another solution on linux is to install a local recursive DNS resolver and be done with it... I'm quite happy with knot-resolver (kresd).
This only works if your ISP is using/abusing/hijacking DNS to censor your connections. If they're doing that you'd be better off using D-o-T or D-o-H, to protect your DNS from interference.
ISP rarely do anything else than DNS censoring (censoring by ip blackholing is for really grave stuff). Also i don't understand why you'd be "better off" using encrypted connection to a 3rd party DNS which can still lie to you. Just run a local resolver, it's so lightweight there's no real reason not to. (and honestly, the hypothetical delay isn't noticeable)