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Meet the Guy Behind the Libgen Torrent Seeding Movement
Libgen and Sci-Hub, regularly referred to as the 'Pirate Bay of Science', are continually under fire. However, if all of the important data is decentralized, almost any eventuality can be dealt with. Today we meet the guy leading a new movement to ensure that Libgen's archives are distributed via the highest quality torrent swarms possible.
[...] [The] torrents used by Libgen were not in good shape so 'shrine' began a movement to boost the quality of their swarms. The project was quickly spotted and then supported by two companies (Seedbox.io and UltraSeedbox.com) that offer 'seedboxes', effectively server-based torrent clients with plenty of storage space and bandwidth available – perfect for giving swarms a boost.
The project gained plenty of traction and as a follow-up thread details, considerable success. Today we catch up with 'shrine' for some history, background information, and an interesting status report.
"Ironically this all started when I saw the TorrentFreak article about [Libgen] mirrors getting taken down. I immediately decided I wanted to find a way to preserve and protect the collection," 'shrine' says.
[...] "Scientists in the Reddit threads are sharing stories of how LibGen made their research possible. Unnamed cloud providers have pledged 100TB allocation on their servers. The response has been overwhelmingly positive from everyone."
Previously:
Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
Sci-Hub, the Repository of "Infringing" Academic Papers Now Available Via "Telegram"
Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages from Sci-Hub and Libgen
US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking
Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD
Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful
Paywall: A Documentary About the Movement for Open-Access Science Publishing
(Score: 4, Informative) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday December 06 2019, @11:34AM (2 children)
Here [wordpress.com] is some interesting background on Sci-Hub, and its connection to LibGen. Props to those who made it happen. It is a huge service to the academic community.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday December 06 2019, @12:06PM (1 child)
I always go for LibGen, which has keyword search and can be used to grab many ebooks. But Sci-Hub is an important piece of the puzzle.
Typical.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday December 06 2019, @02:10PM
I have enough institutional access to take the legal route (for selfish reasons of risk-avoidance). But my occasional papers have been going to true open access journals. Hopefully, sentiment will shift toward the OA journals, and the rent-seeking powers of publishers (whether for-profit or "non-profit") will decline.
"Non-profit" is in quotes, because non-profit academic societies often run journals as profit-centers to fund other society activities.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Friday December 06 2019, @02:12PM (2 children)
A scientific enterprises in the public interest is....aided....by.....a corporation? And more than one?
To help with.....sharing?
It is the chinese moon gel, must be. Things are getting wierd when capitalists are giving stuff away.
Of course, let us not forget the attendant data harvesting of free corporate services. These companies get to know a lot about who is sharing what, which will have value to somebody somewhere.
We wouldn't want any 10 year olds in mumbai inventing a car that runs on dirt or something and going viral before black helicopters can handle the situation.
https://archive.is/eSLh7 [archive.is]
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 06 2019, @08:17PM
A scientific enterprises in the public interest is....aided....by.....a corporation?
Yep, that's what caught my eye too. More centralized services, just like that DNS over HTTPS stuff run by Cloudflare
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Saturday December 07 2019, @12:16PM
A corporation doesn't imply a business. And apparently, there's good press for low commitment to be had here for the businesses. 100TB allocation isn't that hard to come by.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Friday December 06 2019, @02:23PM (1 child)
There's what I suppose is effectively "self piracy". Upload your own published research yourself, to lots more places than just Sci-Hub. Typically, you can also ask a researcher for a copy of some paper of theirs, and especially if it might lead to a citation, they will gladly transmit it to you. Some of these places:
arxiv.org
researchgate.net
datadryad.org
figshare.com
orcid.org
There's also Plan S: www.coalition-s.org
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Coward, Anonymous on Friday December 06 2019, @03:06PM
Researchgate.net is like the Facebook of academia... Avoid them if you dislike data mobsters.