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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: 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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