Month: February 2022

How does Sci-Hub store all the PDFs?

I just discovered Sci-Hub yesterday while working on a scientific essay. My VPN was broken so I didn’t have access to all the papers. Anyway, my question is, does Sci-Hub store a hard copy of all the files? And I read some articles and the word “seeding” was used, what is the process of “seeding”?

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UK High Court Grants the MPA its First “Pirate” Cyberlocker Blocking Order * TorrentFreak

Website blocking is without a doubt one of the favorite anti-piracy tools of the entertainment industries. The UK has been a leader on this front. Since 2011, the High Court has ordered ISPs to block access to many popular pirate sites. While official numbers are lacking, it’s believed that thousands of URLs are currently blocked,… Continue reading UK High Court Grants the MPA its First “Pirate” Cyberlocker Blocking Order * TorrentFreak

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‘Cтатья не найдена в базе’ (article not found in database) or just a blank page whenever I ry to open an article

I’m using .ru domain, I can’t reach .se and .st domains. I can open some articles but mostly I get this ‘cтатья не найдена в базе’ message. The articles I need were published long before the Indian case (mostly 90s-2010s). I hoped uninstalling my sci-hub extention and installing it back would help but it didn’t.… Continue reading ‘Cтатья не найдена в базе’ (article not found in database) or just a blank page whenever I ry to open an article

Any idea how to download this article?

I’ve tried to download some entries from Sage but it said article not found. Any idea how to download it or to get around the ban? https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526421036915455