Elsevier tries to Swartz Sci-Hub

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On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:51 AM, John Young <jya at 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)