Submitted via IRC for Bytram
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: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:21PM (2 children)
When I first found some of my usual web sites blackholed [wikipedia.org] realized that the isp dns where also changed to localhost.
So the easy fix for me was to use my TOR proxy and a Proxy Auto-Configuration [wikipedia.org] proxy.pac file for the browser to automatically and transparently redirect all sites with a tampered dns thru TOR.
A side effect is that usually I'm late to realize that some site has been blackholed because it never stopped working.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:29PM
Missed the
at the end of FindProxyForURL if no matches (while simplifying the code, my proxy.pac is much more complex).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:04PM
I redirect lookups to the autoritative name servers of the domain with pdnsd (I hear unbound is nice too).