@jonny I wonder whether uploading every paper to sci-hub...

@jonny I wonder whether uploading every paper to sci-hub twice would be feasible (i.e. would we still have enough people do that). (If we did so, then it would allow sci-hub to verify with reasonable certainty that whatever watermark-removal method they would use still works.)

Like 27 Jan 2022 at 1:33 | Wall-to-wall | Open on qoto.org

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jonny

@robryk
I think it may be easier to scrub it server side, like to have admins clean the PDFs they have. I don't know of any crowdsourced sci-hub-like projects. scrubbing metadata does seem to render the PDFs identical

27 Jan 2022 at 5:39 | Open on social.coop

robryk

@jonny And then obviously the watermarking techniques will adapt. Asking for two copies is a way to ensure that whatever we are doing still manages to scrub the watermark (they should be identical after scrubbing).

27 Jan 2022 at 8:57 | Open on qoto.org

jonny

@robryk
yes, definitely. all of the above. fix what you have now, adapt to changes, making double grabs part of the protocol makes sense :)

27 Jan 2022 at 9:02 | Open on social.coop

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