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		goodplay on May 5, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Elsevier Complaint Shuts Down Sci-Hub Domain Name They should partition the papers into fields and sub-fields so that each person could easily host and mirror their field of interest. This has the additional benefit of having the papers locally for easy indexing and searching.

toomuchtodo on May 5, 2016 [–]

I agree such meta data should be captured, but if the papers are converted to IPFS, it'll be easier to copy, ship, and then re-serve the data at end points.

Think of it as a [sneaker|dark]net CDN enabled by content addressable storage.

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