Don't wanna sound like a party pooper. But isnt this the same as what movie streaming sites are shut down for, linking to sites with copyrighted material?
For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.
For information: I love to download or stream movies and tv-series.
I think the difference is between linking to material directly, and to such a website. For example, I don't think linking to the Pirate Bay is prohibited.
I'm also not quite sure how it got taken down. I'm currently not convinced that this site nor Wikipedia are illegal for linking to these domains. If someone can either convince Wikipedia to remove those links, or make a strong case for why this is different than Wikipedia linking, I guess I'll have to take it down, yes.
How is this any different than posting a piratebay URL for a pirated movie on HN?
It's a link to a site that links to the front page of SciHub, not a particular paper accessed through it.
Where things really get interesting is info hashes. I could right now post a 160 bit SHA1 hash of any content on the bittorrent DHT and you could obtain it simply by tacking "magnet:?xt=urn:btih:" on the front. So perhaps simply sharing the hash of pirated content with some sort of encouragement could be enough to land you in hot water.