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, Informative) by looorg on Monday November 05 2018, @05:01PM
This is the part I'm not really getting either. It somehow seems futile and that there should be other reasons behind this. It could be part of a wider series of lawsuits, currently the same lawyers using orders from the same court are trying to make the largest ISP in Sweden (Telia) block TPB and some other movie hosting sites and such and Telia told them to fuck off and see you in court. They are to large to be bullied by puny lawyers. I guess if they can force a smaller ISP to block they can somehow use that to show that it's a possible and reasonable thing to do (from their perspective).
https://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.708743/domstol-telia-blockera-piratebay [computersweden.idg.se]
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https%3A%2F%2Fcomputersweden.idg.se%2F2.2683%2F1.708743%2Fdomstol-telia-blockera-piratebay&edit-text= [google.com]
(can't find a news piece about it in English but google translate to the rescue and it gives a somewhat basic translation and idea of the case.