Sci-Hub is a service that provides free access to millions of research papers that are otherwise locked behind paywalls.

Founder Alexandra Elbakyan has faced immense legal pressure for maintaining the database.

Using nostr and blossom would make the distribution of these papers much more robust. 

 What is blossom? 

 A sitcom that aired on NBC in the 90s. 

 it is a simple protocol that enables the storage of files across many servers while maintaining their verifiable integrity.

nostr does this for text, blossom does this for data: video, audio, pdfs, etc. blossom uses nostr for communication and discovery. 

 Cool! Kind of a peer to peer file sharing system like bit torrent? 

 Is Blossom a technology made from the Nostr protocol?