[joel_ms]

The damage done to human culture by our current copyright enforcement regime is heartbreaking.

We have to means to make human cultural output accessible to unprecedented numbers of people around the world, but we don't, largely because it would interrupt the flow of money to incumbent rent-seekers.

[DoctorOetker]

imagine sci-hub is intimidated out of business some date in the future... we would come to regret not making backups, but the size is too large at least 60+TB last I checked. Let's say 60GB were feasible for an average individual. So now we need a decentralized way to ensure we have division of responsibility. How do we divide the labor?

Suppose everyone downloads all the articles for which the hash converted to decimal modulo (3 * 365) equals the user's ((birthyear % 3) * 365+birthday)

Then if a few ten thousand participate, we'd have a backup

Something crazy I didn't know, in the article:

>In France, on January 13, 1535, a law was enacted (at the request of the Catholic Church) which forced the closure of all bookshops and stipulated death penalty by hanging for anybody using a printing press.

[cmrx64]

http://iabak.archiveteam.org/

[DoctorOetker]

I don't think the internet archive backs up sci-hub

[blueboo]

either that, or the copyright enforcement regime has lifted human creativity to unprecedented heights because of the financial protection it afforded, while simultaneously encouraging people to create original work rather than clinging to derivative trend-chasing.

[kirushik]

> encouraging people to create original work rather than clinging to derivative trend-chasing.

Which is opposite of what I observe when studying what my local cinemas have to offer me. (Given that movie industry is enjoying copyright protections the most, and that it's arguably the most-grossing of all.)