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by kaba0 1994 days ago
The important part is not the source code but the content. As for libgen, they provide torrents per 1000 (I think) books, so maybe downloading and seeding those could be helpful? (But I heard they recently created IPFS mirros as well)
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hagibborim 1994 days ago
Both are important here. When I was looking into it, the data was useless without the source code. The names are obfuscated and impossible to query without the application source plus the map of file names to document metadata.

I would be unable to mirror LibGen and Sci-Hub with what is currently available. I would be ECSTATIC to be proven wrong.

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kaba0 1991 days ago
Oh yeah, you are right. But in the case of libgen, other’s mentioned it is open source.
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