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posted by martyb on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-sure-yandex.ru-will-get-right-on-it dept.

After losing a lawsuit filed by the American Chemical Society (ACS) due to failure to appear, Sci-Hub has been ordered to pay the ACS $4.8 million. But the district court's ruling also states that the Sci-Hub website should be blocked by ISPs, search engines, and domain name registrars:

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scientific papers. ACS had alleged copyright infringement, trademark counterfeiting and trademark infringement; a district court in Virginia ruled on 3 November that Sci-Hub should pay the ACS $4.8 million in damages after Sci-Hub representatives failed to attend court.

The new ruling also states that internet search engines, web hosting sites, internet service providers (ISPs), domain name registrars and domain name registries cease facilitating "any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to, use, reproduction, and distribution of the ACS Marks or ACS's Copyrighted Works."

"This case could set precedent for the extent third-parties on the internet are required to enforce government-mandated censorship," says Daniel Himmelstein, a data scientist at the University of Pennsylvania who recently analyzed how many journal papers Sci-Hub holds.

Sci-Hub hosts millions of unpaywalled, full academic papers.

Previously: Elsevier Cracks Down on "Pirate" Science Search Engines
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
Sci-Hub, the Repository of "Infringing" Academic Papers Now Available Via "Telegram"
Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages from Sci-Hub and Libgen
US Court Grants Elsevier Millions in Damages From Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Faces $4.8 Million Piracy Damages and ISP Blocking


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:16PM (13 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:16PM (#594079) Journal

    Heh. If the only way you read books is by using du...

    (grin)

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:34PM (12 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:34PM (#594089) Homepage Journal

    Of course not. That's what cat is for.

    It would have saved me some terrible reads over the years though. Like Rand's novels... Ye flipping gods, man! I don't mind reading a good ranty essay but I fucking well don't want them in my fiction and she felt the need to put one in every third page.

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    • (Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:44PM

      by Arik (4543) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:44PM (#594094) Journal
      That sounds like her later work. I liked We the Living though.
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    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:54PM (6 children)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:54PM (#594097) Journal

      Rand's novels. Ickhh... How about 'Abramowitz & Stegun' - a dense 46MB only?

      > du -hs Downloads/ebooks
      56G Downloads/ebooks

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:22PM (5 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:22PM (#594108) Homepage Journal

        56G Downloads/ebooks

        Yeah, it pains me that I still ain't recovered from The Great Hard Drive Crash of `12.

        I know, back my shit up. Well it just ain't practical to back up as much crap as I keep on my desktop without a tape drive and they're damned expensive. I back up the truly important shat and resign myself to mourning the rest.

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        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:02PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:02PM (#594133) Journal

          I know, back my shit up. Well it just ain't practical to back up as much crap as I keep on my desktop without a tape drive and they're damned expensive.

          Less than a tape, better than a desktop - HPE ProLiant MicroServer [hpe.com] - available for $400. Throw in 4 HDDes spinning rust (WD Red 4TB seems to be the present bang for the buck), install your choice of Linux or BSD, config a RAID5 and you have a 12TB, quiet and frugal (30W with AMD processor) NAS box for around $1000-$1200. Mine (with 4x2TB) hasn't had a failure for the last 5+ years since set it up.

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        • (Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:13PM (3 children)

          by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:13PM (#594144)

          Well it just ain't practical to back up as much crap as I keep on my desktop without a tape drive and they're damned expensive.

          You can get a 4TB USB hard drive for $100 now.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:41PM (2 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:41PM (#594186)

            What's the transfer time on that 4TB over USB?

            How about over USB 2.1? =P

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:57AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:57AM (#594498)

              How about over USB 2.1? =P

              Probably less than to recreating your data? But you know, YYMV.

            • (Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:58PM

              by toddestan (4982) on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:58PM (#595763)

              Not particularly quick, but that's why we have incremental backups. Sure, the first time you might have to leave the PC on for a day, but after that it's usually just a few minutes.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:34PM (3 children)

      by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:34PM (#594119) Journal

      Yeah: Atlas Shrugged, with it's 80 pages of the 'Greatest speech ever given in the history of the world, nay, the universe where Galt says things like "A is A and B is B".

      w. t. f!

      80 pages of speech that a child (or Donald Trump) seems to have written.

      And Capitalists are the greatest beings ever, always paying their employees top dollar and looking out for them in every way {cough}haven't seen that yet in reality{cough}.

      Read it through to say i did it, but man, what a slog. Definitely FICTION!

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:07PM (2 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:07PM (#594237) Homepage Journal

        Top dollar or bottom dollar is irrelevant. What you're worth is what matters. I've not only seen being paid what you're worth, I've gone my whole life being employed at only places that do so.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @10:40AM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @10:40AM (#594561)

          Have you considered that you might be superman and all the weak people are holding you back? Fly, little bird.

          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday November 09 2017, @11:50AM

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday November 09 2017, @11:50AM (#594568) Homepage Journal

            It's not hard, yo. All it takes is the words "thank you just the same but I'm worth more than that" and moving on to the next place. Well, no, you have to be honest enough with yourself to know your own worth to an employer as well. That's a good deal more difficult.

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