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Torrents are great and all but it's dependent on people seeding them, sci-hub/libgen is great because you don't have to worry about a download suddenly breaking because no one is seeding
But they could just always be a seeder. Doesn’t that have the upsides of the existing solution plus resiliency?
By 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…
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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 t…
a plain old website or a publishing house with distribution services and syndication attached, but for a sane price. "a whole lot of tiny files" severely underestimates the scale at work. Libgen's coverage is relatively shallow, and pdf books tend to be huge, at least for older material. Scihub piggy backs on the publishers, so that's your reference. syndication , syndicate , quite apt don't you think? Libraries that…
I recommend using NextDNS, and then setting up a provisioning profile at https://apple.nextdns.io to set it as your revolver on your macs and ios devices. The ad-blocking features are a nice bonus, too.
NextDNS also has a cool free software CLI local DoH proxy resolver which works a charm.
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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…
Isn't scihub already on IPFS?
I believe libgen.fun which is a new (official) libgen mirror is running fully on ipfs, and it serves some scientific papers, but I wasn't able to search by DOI or title there, looks like it redirects to scihub, also there is no index of the papers on IPFS.
Edit: this doc talks about scihub+ipfs (it was created by the leader of Scihub rescue effort on Reddit, /u/shrine): https://freeread.org/ipfs/
The way SciHub is being treated by governments is pretty infuriating. There's a tiny minority of people who have an interest in keeping SciHub off the internet, and they're generally neither the researchers who write the papers, nor those who want to read them. Despite this, the power of the state has been used repeatedly to keep SciHub inaccessible and limit their ability to get funding.
Cease to supply this system with the fruits of your research labors.
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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.
Many UK ISPs have "adult content" filters, which tend to be wide-reaching and block a lot more than just porn sites. But these are optional and can be turned off very easily. There's a smaller set of non-optional blocks (pirate/torrent sites) which you need a VPN to get around.
Porn is not really Illegal, just unwanted, which is apparently reason enough to block it. Does this mean any content which is "unwanted" can be blocked just like that?
What 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.