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		jnsaff2 on April 29, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone "The numbers for Ashburn, Virginia, the top U.S. city with nearly 100,000 Sci-Hub requests, are harder to interpret." Am I the only one who thinks this is just the location of AWS us-east-1? People might be using proxies located there or have bulk download jobs.

TheCoelacanth on April 29, 2016 [–]

Undoubtedly. Ashburn has a population of less than 50,000 people. There's no way it could have almost 50% more use than New York City with millions of people.

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