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IPFS would be a perfect fit for this...
It sadly isn't censorship resistant, but it should do for a few years, and as soon as censorship on IPFS starts to become an issue, hopefully the IPFS developers will evolve the design.
How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
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Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#12Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#13This is a useful note on using PACs to set up proxies for just one site: > Incidentally, you do not need to be running a web server to use the .pac file. You can access it via a file:// type URL. For example (note the 3 slashes): file:///Users/username/Library/proxy.pac http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2004010109555326...
And you should... The proxy.pac file is in some cases reloaded for every single http request.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#14Obviously 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).
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#15Just 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 don't seem to be restricted. And neither do most cloud providers I've tried.
Might be better than using temporary proxies.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#16What is forcing these UK ISPs to block these IP ranges?
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#17By 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.
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
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#18What is forcing these UK ISPs to block these IP ranges?
The UK Government passed a few legislations to this effect and have been doing so since 2015~
Also: all data is required to be logged, and those logs are searchable by civil servants without a warrant.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#19Seems 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.
Re: How to circumvent Sci-Hub ISP block
#20Obviously 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.