I once attempted to make something like ProxySwitchy for DNS[1], but I didn't work on it long enough to get off the ground. This article made me think about it again. Is there actually a use case for that kind of thing?
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works on BT broadband
Virgin says no. Interestingly I get this: Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to sci-hub.st. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
Yeah, that's how Virgin implement their blocking
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#63The 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.
Yes, due to allocation of property rights. Cease to supply this system with the fruits of your research labors.
> Cease to supply this system with the fruits of your research labors.
Historically academics have felt forced to support this system, because for-profit journals are the high-prestige ones they must publish in in order to get tenure. This has changed for certain fields, but it isn’t as simple as just suggesting that one publish elsewhere.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#64GreenTunnel is another alternative to evade ISP blocking without using a VPN: https://github.com/SadeghHayeri/GreenTunnel
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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
In Internet scale it's not a lot of data. Most people who think they have big data don't. Estimates I've seen put the total Scihub cache at 85 million articles totaling 77TB. That's a single 2U server with room to spare. The hardest part is indexing and search, but it's a pretty small search space by Internet standards.
It still amazes me that 77TB is considered "small". Isn't that still in the $500-$1,000 range of non-redundant storage? Or if hosted on AWS, isn't that almost $1,900 a month if no one accesses it?
I know it's not Big Data(tm) big data, but it is a lot of data for something that can generate no revenue.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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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.
I have a theory that the ISPs over-block with their adult content filters, so you've got plausible deniability and don't have to ring up and say "I want porn please." Because the alternative is that they lose a customer to an ISP who doesn't embarrass them.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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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…
There was that project some guy posted a while back that used a combination of sqlite and partial downloads to enable searches on a database before it was downloaded all the way. If you can fit PDFs somewhere into that you'd be golden. Or just use IPFS I suppose.
"There was that project some guy posted a while back that used a combination of sqlite and partial downloads to enable searches on a database before it was downloaded all the way."
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#68How do the alternative domains fare in the UK? With https://sci-hub.st/ I can circumvent the ISP block in Sweden successfully.
Works for me on Plusnet in the UK, thanks!
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#69Seems 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.
I use SciHub a lot, and just this week have been having problems accessing it on the internet (in the UK) - I don't use Tor, but I also never even thought of it. Totally agree it would be a good idea to promote the Onion address!
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
There was that project some guy posted a while back that used a combination of sqlite and partial downloads to enable searches on a database before it was downloaded all the way. If you can fit PDFs somewhere into that you'd be golden. Or just use IPFS I suppose.
IPFS would face a similar challenge as the “keep torrents seeded” problem mentioned by GP. Wouldn’t there be risk to peers who host the PDFs?