[dijit]

Seems like this is a really good service to add some legitimacy to Tor browsing.

Having SciHub as a hidden service would bring a lot of people to Tor.

EDIT: apparently I'm a bit stupid; it exists: https://scihub22266oqcxt.onion

But it would be cool to promote the hell out of the onion address and tor browser, rather than trying to bypass ISP restrictions.

[livueta]

Possibly also a path to greater decentralization. Relying on jurisdictional stuff isn't going to cut it forever (see the current pause on new uploads), but it's also hard to ask people to host data that'll get them sued without offering mitigations. Private torrent trackers do that through, well, being private, but I'm sure as hell not serving springer_catalogue_2020.tar.xz to the whole internet from an address linked to me in any way. Maybe an index of independently operated hidden services, each serving a (redundant) shard of the collection?

[GordonS]

I use SciHub a lot, and just this week have been having problems accessing it on the internet (in the UK) - I don't use Tor, but I also never even thought of it. Totally agree it would be a good idea to promote the Onion address!