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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by qwerty456127 »

valprop1 wrote: post #159

I still cannot get my head around on to why the world is not embracing open sourcing of data. One way or other people get what the want so you might as well give open access and reinvent the entire business model altogether. Harnessing the power of community could be the key for this reinvention.

I also could never understand why software companies like Microsoft invest into software activation stuff. They constantly try to improve protection of their apps, run activation servers and probably have already spent huge lots of money on this and I have never seen anybody willing to use pirated software facing any real difficulty. Whoever wants it gets it anyway. Those who can afford a license easily and those (mostly businesses) who care about the legal aspect buy anyway. A simple (even easily crackable from the technical point of view) low-tech "enter a serial" dialog is enough to stop the rest (lazy/stupid people).

I understand how does this work in games and movies (the publisher gets most of the profit in the first hours after the release, before it gets cracked) but can't understand what's the point with business/utility apps.

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by poooogles »

Reason077 wrote: post #42
Quarrel wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>There's a smaller set of non-optional blocks (pirate/torrent sites) which you need a VPN to get around.

This https://unblockit.pw/ also does the job too (scihub is at the bottom).

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by mathnmusic »

dredmorbius wrote: post #133
spicybright wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why map anything to words for strict identification? Words and language are very error prone vs an id number or hash.

It's a bit of an itch I've been scratching for a few years. Most especially, given two or more instances of what you suspect to be the same or a substantively similar work, how can you assess this in a robust and format-independent manner, programmatically? For works with well-formed metadata, this isn't an issue. For identical duplicate copies of the same file, a hash is effective. But for the circumstance most ofte…

I have been dealing with the same problem for curating resources at https://learnawesome.org. Projects like Openlibrary do collect unique identifiers for _books_, but for everything else, it mostly takes manual effort. For example, I collect talks/podcasts by the author where they discuss ideas from their books. Then there are summaries written by others.

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by Aachen »

teeray wrote: post #131
crtasm wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the .onion is currently timing out. Love the haq!

I’ve never had success with their .onion link. I suspect something may be wrong there.

Aside from Facebook and my own onion services, that has been my experience with all onion domains somehow. Since my own onion services work (from unrelated networks and no special config), I'm pretty sure it's on the hosters' end. Quite frustrating; I'd love to use this more but it doesn't seem like people can get this stuff together.

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by generationP »

Dear authors: Just post your papers (before they have been formatted by the journal, but after they have been refereed at the latest) on the arXiv (maths, cs, physics) and similar repositories. Including the old ones you still have. Once a critical mass does this, the problem will be solved, whatever the Indian courts decide.

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by GordonS »

crtasm wrote: post #118
GordonS wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Works for me on Plusnet in the UK, thanks!

Interestingly it works on HTTPS but with HTTP you get a block page referencing the court order (confirmed by a friend on Plusnet) See also: https://www.blocked.org.uk/site/http://sci-hub.st

Same here, I hadn't tried HTTP. I wonder if this is Plusnet conforming to the letter of the law in quiet defiance? Of course, it could just be an error on their part...

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by valprop1 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #161
valprop1 wrote: post #159

I still cannot get my head around on to why the world is not embracing open sourcing of data. One way or other people get what the want so you might as well give open access and reinvent the entire business model altogether. Harnessing the power of community could be the key for this reinvention.

I also could never understand why software companies like Microsoft invest into software activation stuff. They constantly try to improve protection of their apps, run activation servers and probably have already spent huge lots of money on this and I have never seen anybody willing to use pirated software facing any real difficulty. Whoever wants it gets it anyway. Those who can afford a license easily and those (mo…

Interesting point, I guess it is just be a marketing gimmick so as to show the customer that "security" is our priority.

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by nandhinianand »

tmkadamcz wrote: post #10

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.

Wouldn't IPFS(https://ipfs.io/) work well?..

Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block

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Post by dredmorbius »

mathnmusic wrote: post #163
dredmorbius wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a bit of an itch I've been scratching for a few years. Most especially, given two or more instances of what you suspect to be the same or a substantively similar work, how can you assess this in a robust and format-independent manner, programmatically? For works with well-formed metadata, this isn't an issue. For identical duplicate copies of the same file, a hash is effective. But for the circumstance most ofte…

I have been dealing with the same problem for curating resources at https://learnawesome.org . Projects like Openlibrary do collect unique identifiers for _books_, but for everything else, it mostly takes manual effort. For example, I collect talks/podcasts by the author where they discuss ideas from their books. Then there are summaries written by others.

There's a lot of work toward this in library space, though it takes some adaptation to new media formats. Paul Otlet worked in a paper-only medium in the early 20th century but also has some excellent thinking. His books are now seeing translation from French. The Internet Archive and Library of Congress are also doing a lot of relevant work, see the WARC format as an example.

What's particularly relevant now are ephemeral and/or continuously updated online content --- and not just the WWW (http/https), but other protocols (ftp, gemini, ipfs, torrents, ...), as well as apps.

A working truism I developed was that "identity is search that produces a single result". So if you can come up with something that uniquely identifies a work, then that can be a working identifier. I typically focus on what can be reasonably assessed of author, title, publication date, publisher (traditional, website/domain), and failing that, descriptive text. Remember that originally titles were simply the introductory lines of works (a practice that remains used in some cases, e.g., the names of church masses or prayers, e.g., "Kyrie Eleison").

The Superintendent of Documents (SuDoc) Classification Scheme (used by the US goverment and GAO) and operates by agency, type of publication, and further divisions, as well as date/year. https://www.fdlp.gov/about-fdlp/22-services/929-sudoc-classi...

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