As you may or may not know, libgen was went offline a couple of days ago. [1] For the uninformed, it was a piracy site provided by the Russkies that had ~60TB of non-fiction books, textbooks, science articles, and more. It went offline in the wake of a lawsuit from Elsevier. Now, this is not a centralized repository; it has had a public FTP server, and distributed torrents for the longest time, but let's not kind ourselves. Contemporary filesharers are bad at preserving that which is of importance, but is not in people's immediate interests. Therefore, fellow /sci/entists, I implore you, please download as many of the magnet links from this paste[2] as you reasonably can, and seed it until a future existence for libgen is certain.
Don't get me wrong, this very much not an appeal to moralfaggotry. Rather, I want to go to university someday, and I do NOT want to pay the cost of a powerful computer for textbooks alone!
We perhaps want to discuss alternative ways to preserve this treasure trove of academia, as well. After all, do we really want to leave it up to a bunch of silly ruskies?
[1]: https://torrentfreak.com/libgen-goes-down-as-legal-pressure-mounts-150622/
[2]: https://pastee.org/grb64