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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
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:22PM (5 children)
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:02PM
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:13PM (3 children)
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)
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
Probably less than to recreating your data? But you know, YYMV.
(Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:58PM
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.