![]() ![]() I consider cellphone numbers ephemeral, as i consider all phone numbers. Recently i needed to check what domains i had purchased through various domain name providers (namecheap, godaddy), and i nearly lost access to my godaddy account because of the TOTP/verification stages. ![]() There's certain "arranged" understandings when it comes to science (and all academic) publishing, and navigating that to provide a uniform interface to the actual documents is the "hard part" - although realistically, a file is a file, and distribution should be "easy". Realistically everyone wants to know where they stand. Proper lawyer-ing can cover for bad decisions some of the time, and perhaps losing some case and winning others is more important. Perhaps we could exclude the most recent 10 years of music so that the hopeful young musician streamers can get paid a few hundred dollars for millions of streams and then receive the silver lining of fair use protection against a label refusing to release one of their albums.Ĭourts can make dumb decisions, either by bias or bad arguments. It's really a shame that the nerdy, completist domain of digital archiving through torrents isn't covered by fair use. Oh yeah, there's also apparently another approach in rutracker, which seems to be blitzkrieg to add content and publish, at the (apparent?) cost of quality of content. Was any data lost between the two services? Yet the tracker was apparently already nuked off the internet as What.cd and reappeared later as Redacted. It seems that would mean the library-in-its-entirety cannot be easily replicated at will. But apparently because a) there's a 1:1 upload/download ratio, and b) a few first-mover fat cats are sitting on enormous ratios, this means there is a scramble by everyone else to upload new FLACs to build up their ratio so they can continue to be able to download FLACs. ![]() New users get a few gigs free download on joining. On the other hand, the What.cd/Redacted approach seems to use Bittorrent ratios to create a private-tracker economy. I.e., I guess if one had a big enough harddrive and a fast enough internet connection, one could start downloading the lib right now and see if they win the race against the copyright holders. IIUC Sci-hub has scooped up science docs through a good enough UX that it was able to leverage the goodwill of science folks to upload docs (plus whatever other methods it has used to scoop up docs), and it uses a public blitzkrieg-style distribution mechanism. I'm curious how Sci-hub's approach compares to the What.cd/Redacted approach. ![]()
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