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by DoctorOetker 2767 days ago
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.

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