Comment on Or Library Genesis

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• qaz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Over 70TB?

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  • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So about $800 in HDDs. Steep but reasonable for all the knowledge man has acquired so far.

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    • FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All of human knowledge is not encoded into academia.

      Academia is heavily western biased.

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      • rustydrd@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. You’re not wrong. Sci-Hub focuses on academic journal articles, which are a pretty novel phenomenon. The first journal was created in the 17th century, and journals didn’t become the primary medium for publications until well into the 19th century. I wouldn’t say academia is “biased” per se, but it’s true that the academic publishing business is heavily dominated by western companies.

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      • redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then get digitizing. We have unicode and AI text extraction.

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• Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unlike wikipedia, they don’t offer a full torrent of the site, so it’s hard to estimate. I guess the closest point of comparison would be Anna’s archive index, since they have a rough filesize total?

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I should seed Wikipedia

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