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by givepause 5y ago
It should read (partially) empowered by Sci-Hub, since they host an archive of Sci-Hub.
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by givepause 5y ago
They only host PDFs and EPUBs, so there's no software involved.
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by givepause 6y ago
https://sci-hub.do https://sci-hub.st https://sci-hub.se are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts. All other URLs should be considered unofficial or
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by givepause 6y ago
It's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is. SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hub Rea
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by givepause 6y ago
That's a scam site. Visit the official VK page for real links.
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by givepause 6y ago
Some of your concerns are addressed in the wiki on freeread.org: http://freeread.org/reddit-libgen/ VirusTotal includes some very poor quality Chinese AVs that produce positives for nearly every file. PDFs are pretty d
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by givepause 6y ago
I have heard that certain countries ISPs break HTTPS, that might be one reason. It's hard to believe, but it's certainly happened/happening -- plenty of democratic countries are filtering the internet, like Turkey.
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by givepause 6y ago
scitech is there, it's relabeled "Educational." comics is not a public dataset -- it's privately run and managed, so there are no mirrors for it. I guess someone could scrape it.
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by givepause 7y ago
Such a small collection. It's incredible that no governments are stepping up to preserve humanity's and their country's knowledge as a digital library. /r/datahoarder is currently seeding 2.5 million books, if anyon
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by givepause 7y ago
Imagine a species having the capacity to share every bit of its knowledge, with every one of its people, and choosing not to do so. Calling all PHP, SQL, Elastic Search, distributed computing experts, and everyone else with the drive to sha
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by givepause 7y ago
A few people are active trying to modernize the database code for Sci-Hub's sister project. PHP and SQL experts needed, it seems. https://gitlab.com/libgen1
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by givepause 7y ago
Because (shh) it's a secret. Survival through camouflage.