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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.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:46AM (1 child)
Why would you want to live in a world in which you give the Men with Guns so much power?
That's just crazy.
How about you stop stealing money from people in the first place?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @12:25PM
What? Stop stealing money? Then how am I supposed to pay the Men with Guns?
Look, the first rule of fight club is steal money and give it to the guys with the guns. After that nothing else matters.