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gherkin0 on May 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sci-Hub Is Blowing Up the Academic Publishing Indu...

> presumably until its copyright expires or copyright laws change.

Then what's the point? The whole point of Sci-hub is to distribute copyrighted papers, "archive" would be inaccessible until it is useless.

colejohnson66 on June 1, 2016 | [–]

The point would be to keep an archive of scientific papers, but prevent access to them in case SciHub goes down.

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