[boramalper]

For those who didn’t read the full article, because people often don’t, here is the actual / other major reason why Sci-Hub stopped:

> Why Sci-Hub stopped

> The court order was not the main reason Sci-Hub stopped releasing new papers: by 2022 most university libraries implemented two-factor authentication, and as a result, Sci-Hub could not automatically login to libraries using student / researcher username and password to download new papers. Those paywall-circumvention methods that worked well in 2011-2015 became useless in 2022.