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Two years ago, academic publisher Elsevier filed a complaint against Sci-Hub, Libgen and several related "pirate" sites.
The publisher accused the websites of making academic papers widely available to the public, without permission.
While Sci-Hub and Libgen are nothing like the average pirate site, they are just as illegal according to Elsevier's legal team, which swiftly obtained a preliminary injunction from a New York District Court.
The injunction ordered Sci-Hub's founder Alexandra Elbakyan, who is the only named defendant, to quit offering access to any Elsevier content. This didn't happen, however.
Sci-Hub and the other websites lost control over several domain names, but were quick to bounce back. They remain operational today and have no intention of shutting down, despite pressure from the Court.
This prompted Elsevier to request a default judgment and a permanent injunction against the Sci-Hub and Libgen defendants. In a motion filed this week, Elsevier's legal team describes the sites as pirate havens.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-damages-from-sci-hub-and-libgen-170518/
Previously:
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
New York Times Opinion Piece on Open Access Publishing
A Spiritual Successor to Aaron Swartz is Angering Publishers All Over Again
(Score: 3, Touché) by DannyB on Friday May 19 2017, @06:17PM (6 children)
1676: If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
2017: If I have not seen as far as others, it's because I have giants standing on my shoulders.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday May 19 2017, @06:52PM (5 children)
Those giants also carry seemingly endless rolls of parchment carrying the misguided emblems of the USPTO gods.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 19 2017, @09:17PM (4 children)
Our resident Authoritarian editor has, yet again, chosen a dept. line with which I disagree.
Mine would have been
from the queered-system dept.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @02:37PM (2 children)
Yet another TMB submission ruined by the editors!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @08:28PM (1 child)
Hyperbole.
cmn32480 does, however, often manage to come down on the side of issues that is different from the majority of Soylentils.
...and you're indicating that you, like cmn32480, support the current state of imaginary property law?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:30PM
Lay off of cmn. He's a funny looking fuck, but he's OUR funny looking fuck!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday May 20 2017, @09:29PM
BIGOT!! What do you have against queered systems?