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  • sci hub Sci-Hub, the "pirate bay of science," undergoes expansion Annie Rauwerda
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  • bahnhof Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier Cory Doctorow
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