Are people working on a better system to replace DNS? This little game is quickly becoming tiring.
namecoin, Tor adresses...
Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
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Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does. Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement. I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing. Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server? Edit: I kn…
echo "google.com 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
duckduckgo it
echo "google.com 54.215.176.19" >> /etc/hosts
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#153I wonder if there is a way of distributing a signed file that contains the IP address of sci-hub over a distributed medium? Someone else would just need to write a small script that copied it into the system's host file - but make it generic enough that it works for anything. That would help non-technical users. This would stop courts from going after centralised name servers. There really needs to be a way of decent…
It's possible in principle. Just use public-key cryptography (perhaps the SSL cert of the website), grep and ed. You could have it update once a day from the sites listed, or perhaps create some type of dht backend.
P.S. This dht-based P2P dns project might interest you. https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What value does the publisher's work add to the work the author generated? - organizing peer review - spell-checking and fixing layout problems - making sure that the paper stays available for a long time - handling complaints and retracting fraudulent papers - providing a single point of contact for people who would like to reuse published material (e.g., using illustrations in a textbook). Sure, many publishers d…
> making sure that the paper stays available for a long time It's something that could actually be handled much better (and cheaper) by an inter-university p2p network (like BitTorrent). Such a network would double as an on-site, offline-available library of papers.
Sure, there are other ways. Arxiv is certainly an option. However, someone still needs to develop and organize this (and pay for that). There is no free lunch - either you are paying a publisher for this service, or a university library to do the same.
(Of course, one might argue that other entities might be able to do the same thing cheaper - but this was not the topic of my argument)
(Actually, there already is some sort of "inter-university p2p network": http://www.lockss.org/ )
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#155> Meanwhile, academic pirates continue to flood to Sci-Hub, domain seizure or not. I realize readers of torrentfreak.com have a different relationship with the word "pirate" but-- This is not piracy. You are entitled to read work from Sci-Hub, as your taxes funded the researchers who created the work. We academics want you to read our work, we do not benefit in any way from publisher paywalls. We continue to publish…
Is this argument valid internationally? My canadian taxes didn't pay for american research, should I still be able to access those papers?
Sure. Same way that if you were to drive down for a weekend and not pay taxes on the roads you specifically used across the border.
Until thousands of Canadians come down every weekend just so they can use American roads and then go back home to fill up on gas, we won't worry about it.
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#157Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#158I wonder if there is a way of distributing a signed file that contains the IP address of sci-hub over a distributed medium? Someone else would just need to write a small script that copied it into the system's host file - but make it generic enough that it works for anything. That would help non-technical users. This would stop courts from going after centralised name servers. There really needs to be a way of decent…
It's possible in principle. Just use public-key cryptography (perhaps the SSL cert of the website), grep and ed. You could have it update once a day from the sites listed, or perhaps create some type of dht backend. P.S. This dht-based P2P dns project might interest you. https://github.com/mwarning/KadNode
What about distributing it? Is there a way of decentralizing that?
I notice there is Tahoe lafs...
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#159Yet again, please don't mention other sites here or in reddit etc. Being in the spotlight is not good for them. What they are doing is morally fine in my book, but infringes the law and you are contributing to their demise. Keep it low profile, the more you blab about them the sooner they are gone. And until the next platform makes it -if it does, you can't guarantee it will- it is going to cause a lot of damage to many careers out there, because there are many people that have no choice but this one. If this is a war, it is a war of attrition, it can't be won by pointing out the targets.
Re: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
SAGE Publications' busts of the peer review and citation ring back in 2014 was great work. Might it be possible for you to expand on SAGE's position of Sci-Hub?
There's no official position. It's a messy issue, with what I'm sure are lots of conflicting opinions among various people at Sage. I don't see perfectly eye to eye on this with other board members (one of whom is my father) or upper management. That's not a bad thing. The issue of paywalls and piracy is a really complicated thing, even though most HN commenters would make it seem like a black and white good vs bad i…
> In STM you can make the legit argument that all published research should be open access and the cost of that should come out of the same funding that funded the research.
There is no cost of publishing your/my papers as open access. Just follow these easy steps:
1. Write paper, send to journal
2. Do the peer review hokey pokey until paper is accepted
3. Upload preprint version to preprint server (arXiv etc.), with link to journal version
If you're brave, you can do step 3 before step 2.
This whole concept of paying for open access is ridiculous and should go die in a fire.