Very interesting piece on Sci-Hub: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone …. Surprising that it took so long for something like this to exist.
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I'm not so sure... Kazaa and Napster were proper companies. Much less to sue in this case.
. @patrickc Good point, though it's true also of torrenting. Domain whackamole (& flaky service) may be the key thing, not lawsuits.
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Yes, agreed. Though the legal path is so goddamn painful that their intricate Tor route may still be less hassle :-)
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Not sure what the emoji for "sympathetic laugh" is :-)
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biggest flaw for torrents was mobile (ban on iOS) & Netflix.
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