givepause·5 jaar geleden·discussIt should read (partially) empowered by Sci-Hub, since they host an archive of Sci-Hub.
givepause·6 jaar geleden·discusshttps://sci-hub.dohttps://sci-hub.sthttps://sci-hub.seare the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts.All other URLs should be considered unofficial or scams.
givepause·6 jaar geleden·discussIt's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is.SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase.https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hubReal organization, coincidentally a very similar domain and area of work.
givepause·6 jaar geleden·discussSome of your concerns are addressed in the wiki on freeread.org: http://freeread.org/reddit-libgen/VirusTotal includes some very poor quality Chinese AVs that produce positives for nearly every file. PDFs are pretty damn safe to access today -- the days of exploding macro exploits are about a decade behind us.
givepause·6 jaar geleden·discussI have heard that certain countries ISPs break HTTPS, that might be one reason.It's hard to believe, but it's certainly happened/happening -- plenty of democratic countries are filtering the internet, like Turkey.
givepause·6 jaar geleden·discussscitech is there, it's relabeled "Educational."comics is not a public dataset -- it's privately run and managed, so there are no mirrors for it. I guess someone could scrape it.