Re: Elsevier tries to Swartz Sci-Hub
Peculiar that there are not thousands of mirrors of offerings by Libgen, Sci-hub and the like, as well as new inititatives by the thousands. These collections are a lot more valuable than puny, by comparison, offerings by WikiLeaks and Snowden's media apparatus -- heavily publicized, politicized, monetized, glorified but minimally technically and scientifically useful due to sparse and drippy releases. For example, 3,415 volumes liberated by Aaron Swartz remain on torrent (some of which we have mirrored with only a half-dozen DMCA notices): http://cryptome.org/aaron-swartz-series.htm At 08:33 PM 6/27/2015, you wrote:
On 6/27/15, grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
http://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-tears-down-academias-illegal-copyright-paywa...
""" âThanks to Elsevierâs lawsuit, I got past the point of no return. At this time I either have to prove we have the full right to do this or risk being executed like other âpiratesâ,â she says, naming Aaron Swartz as an example.
âIf Elsevier manages to shut down our projects or force them into the darknet, that will demonstrate an important idea: that the public does not have the right to knowledge. We have to win over Elsevier and other publishers and show that what these commercial companies are doing is fundamentally wrong.â """
- i expect all onions, all the time, eventually :)
On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:51 AM, John Young <jya@pipeline.com> wrote:
Peculiar that there are not thousands of mirrors of offerings by Libgen, Sci-hub and the like, as well as new inititatives by the thousands.
These collections are a lot more valuable than puny, by comparison,
There are not thousands because the datasets they offer are very large. When it takes tens of terabytes and hundreds of dollars in hardware alone, before bandwidth, to mirror them... not many will expend that. Another problem is that unlike a simple traditional SFTP/HTTPS warez server, there are no torrent tools that are capable of managing and serving indexes of anything near 1000 torrents, even 100 begins to get unwieldy. How many of you have over 100 legitimate physical titles? Even if the average user wanted to share, resist, and move for change... it would be hard... the tools at scale don't exist for them. That code is easy in comparison to other management and human code issues of titleing, versioning, data deduplication, and promoting lossless as the best onetime fit therein... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez)
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