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Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier

posted by mrpg on Monday November 05 2018, @05:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the REJECT dept.

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Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier

[...] Unfortunately for Swedes and for science, the Swedish Patent and Market Court (which never met a copyright overreach it didn't love) upheld the order, and Bahnhof, a small ISP with limited resources, decided not to appeal (a bigger, richer ISP had just lost a similar appeal).

Instead, Bahnhof now blocks attempts to visit Sci-Hub domains, and Elsevier.com, redirecting attempts to visit Elsevier to a page explaining how Elsevier's sleaze and bullying have allowed it to monopolize scientific publishing, paywalling publicly funded science that is selected, reviewed and edited by volunteers who mostly work for publicly funded institutions.

To as[sic] icing on this revenge-flavored cake, Bahnhof also detects attempts to visit its own site from the Patent and Market Court and redirects them to a page explaining that since the Patent and Market Court believes that parts of the web should be blocked, Bahnhof is blocking the court's access to its part of the web.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:21AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:21AM (#757869)

    Elsevier is part of the existing paradigm of poorly defined property rights.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday November 05 2018, @07:26AM (2 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 05 2018, @07:26AM (#757883) Journal

    Kill this concrete parasite first, we'll deal with the nebulous 'paradigm of poorly defined property rights' after.

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    • (Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 05 2018, @08:31AM (1 child)

      by Arik (4543) on Monday November 05 2018, @08:31AM (#757890) Journal
      Unfortunately that doesn't always work so well.

      I'm not saying it is the worst possibility.

      It's not the best though, and that's for certain.

      Under the existing paradigm what they do makes perfect sense. And they are parasites, beyond any doubt.

      If this does not cause you to question the paradigm itself, then what would?
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      • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 05 2018, @10:06AM

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday November 05 2018, @10:06AM (#757911) Journal

        Unfortunately that doesn't always work so well.

        By mergers and acquisitions, the number of big parasites in scientific publishing are small.
        If my assertion is right (I might be wrong, but I don't think I'm very far away), in this case this may work well enough.

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