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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Tired of seeing [abstract only] on SoylentNews? Try searching for the title on the Library Genesis search engine.
TorrentFreak reports that the academic publishing giant Elsevier has filed a complaint in a New York District Court to attempt to shut down the Library Genesis and SciHub.org search engines:
According to Elsevier the company is losing revenue because of these sites, so in order to stem the tide the publisher has filed a complaint [PDF] at a New York federal court hoping to shut them down.
"Defendants are reproducing and distributing unauthorized copies of Elsevier's copyrighted materials, unlawfully obtained from ScienceDirect, through Sci-Hub and through various websites affiliated with the Library Genesis Project," the complaint reads. "Specifically, Defendants utilize their websites located at sci-hub.org and at the Libgen Domains to operate an international network of piracy and copyright infringement by circumventing legal and authorized means of access to the ScienceDirect database," it adds.
According to Elsevier, the websites access articles by using unlawfully obtained student or faculty access credentials. The articles are then added to the "pirate" library, backed up on their own servers.
Tom Allen, President of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), informs TF that websites such as Libgen pose a threat to the quality of scientific publications, as well as the public health. "Scholarly publishers work to ensure the accuracy of the scientific record by issuing corrections and revisions to research findings as needed; Libgen typically does not," Allen says. "As a result, its repository of illegally obtained content poses a threat to both quality journal publishing and to public health and safety."
The court has yet to decide whether the injunctions should be granted, but considering outcomes in recent piracy cases there's a good chance this will happen. For the time being, however, the Libgen and Sci-hub websites remain online.
Original Submission
The darknet is where you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. An article by Kaveh Waddell over at The Atlantic describes how you can not only access illegal drugs, weapons, and other nefarious materials, but this now includes scientific research papers. Following Elsevier's successful crackdown and dissolution of Sci-Hub, the site owner, Alexandra Elbakyan, has moved it to the darknet.
There will always be techniques for accessing paywalled research for free, even without services like Sci-Hub. Some of them are much less complex than Elbakyan's website: Researchers and scholars often use the hashtag #icanhazpdf on Twitter to ask fellow academics for paywalled articles. (There's even been scholarly work published that analyzes the phenomenon—appropriately, the research is free online.)
But Sci-Hub's ingenious methods automate the process, cut out middle men on Twitter, and don't advertise the request for, essentially, pirated research. And Elbakyan says her website's presence on the dark web will help keep it accessible even if legal action dismantles Sci-Hub's new home on the easily accessible surface web.
TechDirt reports:
Sci-Hub [is] the search engine for academic papers that includes a few tricks to access more paywalled academic papers for free, using the academic logins that have been shared with the site for the sake of retrieving more research. Academic journal publishing giant Elsevier has been waging a war with the site, first getting an injunction against its original domain back in December, only to have it quickly pop up elsewhere.
[...] Now, Sci-Hub has announced that it's available via the popular messaging app Telegram as well.
[...] From the looks of it, you can just send it a message with the title you want, and it sends you back a download link--within seconds. From a researcher's standpoint, this seems like it must be quite handy, and certainly again feels a lot like the fairly standard #icanhazpdf process used on social media by academics all the time. Just a little more automated.
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Two years ago, academic publisher Elsevier filed a complaint against Sci-Hub, Libgen and several related "pirate" sites.
The publisher accused the websites of making academic papers widely available to the public, without permission.
While Sci-Hub and Libgen are nothing like the average pirate site, they are just as illegal according to Elsevier's legal team, which swiftly obtained a preliminary injunction from a New York District Court.
The injunction ordered Sci-Hub's founder Alexandra Elbakyan, who is the only named defendant, to quit offering access to any Elsevier content. This didn't happen, however.
Sci-Hub and the other websites lost control over several domain names, but were quick to bounce back. They remain operational today and have no intention of shutting down, despite pressure from the Court.
This prompted Elsevier to request a default judgment and a permanent injunction against the Sci-Hub and Libgen defendants. In a motion filed this week, Elsevier's legal team describes the sites as pirate havens.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-damages-from-sci-hub-and-libgen-170518/
Previously:
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
New York Times Opinion Piece on Open Access Publishing
A Spiritual Successor to Aaron Swartz is Angering Publishers All Over Again
One of the world's largest science publishers, Elsevier, won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub, the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.
Judge Robert Sweet had ruled in October 2015 that the sites violate US copyright. The court issued a preliminary injunction against the sites' operators, who nevertheless continued to provide unauthorized free access to paywalled content. Alexandra Elbakyan, a former neuroscientist who started Sci-Hub in 2011, operates the site out of Russia, using varying domain names and IP addresses.
In May, Elsevier gave the court a list of 100 articles illicitly made available by Sci-Hub and LibGen, and asked for a permanent injunction and damages totalling $15 million. The Dutch publishing giant holds the copyrights for the largest share of the roughly 28 million papers downloaded from Sci-Hub over 6 months in 2016, followed by Springer Nature and Wiley-Blackwell. (Nature is published by Springer Nature, and Nature's news and comment team is editorially independent of the publisher.) According to a recent analysis, almost 50% of articles requested from Sci-Hub are published by these three companies1.
Previously: Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages from Sci-Hub and Libgen
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Sci-Hub, which is regularly referred to as the "Pirate Bay of science", faces another setback in a US federal court. After the site's operator failed to respond, the American Chemical Society now requests a default judgment of $4.8 million for alleged copyright infringement. In addition, the publisher wants a broad injunction which would require search engines and ISPs to block the site.
The pirate site, operated by Alexandra Elbakyan, was ordered to pay $15 million in piracy damages to academic publisher Elsevier.
With the ink on this order barely dry, another publisher soon tagged on with a fresh complaint. The American Chemical Society (ACS), a leading source of academic publications in the field of chemistry, also accused Sci-Hub of mass copyright infringement.
[...] "Sci-Hub's unabashed flouting of U.S. Copyright laws merits a strong deterrent. This Court has awarded a copyright holder maximum statutory damages where the defendant's actions were 'clearly willful' and maximum damages were necessary to 'deter similar actors in the future'," they write.
Although the deterrent effect may sound plausible in most cases, another $4.8 million in debt is unlikely to worry Sci-Hub's owner, as she can't pay it off anyway. However, there's also a broad injunction on the table that may be more of a concern.
The requested injunction prohibits Sci-Hub's owner to continue her work on the site. In addition, it also bars a wide range of other service providers from assisting others to access it.
Specifically, it restrains "any Internet search engines, web hosting and Internet service providers, domain name registrars, and domain name registries, to cease facilitating access to any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to [ACS's works]."
The above suggests that search engines may have to remove the site from their indexes while ISPs could be required to block their users' access to the site as well, which goes quite far.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-faces-48-million-piracy-damages-and-isp-blocking-170905/
Documentary puts lens on the open-access movement upending scientific publishing
Jason Schmitt was working at Atlantic Records when the online site Napster disrupted the music industry by making copyrighted songs freely available. Now, the communications and media researcher at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, is pushing for a similar disruption of academic publishing with Paywall, a documentary about the open-access movement that debuts today in a Washington, D.C., theater. "I don't think that it's right that for-profit publishers can make 35%–40% profit margins. The content is provided for them for free by academics," Schmitt, who produced the film, says.
The documentary explores the impact of Sci-Hub, a website that provides pirated versions of paywalled papers for free online, and interviews academics and publishing figures. Schmitt says many large publishers refused to go on camera—although representatives from Science and Nature did—and he is not impressed that several have begun publishing some open-access journals. "Elsevier is as much to open access as McDonald's fast food is to healthy," he says.
Sci-Hub and Library Genesis.
Related:
The Research Pirates of the Dark Web
Wellcome Trust Recommends Free Scientific Journals
Sci-Hub, the Repository of "Infringing" Academic Papers Now Available Via "Telegram"
Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access
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
Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD
Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful
Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe
Meet the Guy Behind the Libgen Torrent Seeding Movement
Libgen and Sci-Hub, regularly referred to as the 'Pirate Bay of Science', are continually under fire. However, if all of the important data is decentralized, almost any eventuality can be dealt with. Today we meet the guy leading a new movement to ensure that Libgen's archives are distributed via the highest quality torrent swarms possible.
[...] [The] torrents used by Libgen were not in good shape so 'shrine' began a movement to boost the quality of their swarms. The project was quickly spotted and then supported by two companies (Seedbox.io and UltraSeedbox.com) that offer 'seedboxes', effectively server-based torrent clients with plenty of storage space and bandwidth available – perfect for giving swarms a boost.
The project gained plenty of traction and as a follow-up thread details, considerable success. Today we catch up with 'shrine' for some history, background information, and an interesting status report.
"Ironically this all started when I saw the TorrentFreak article about [Libgen] mirrors getting taken down. I immediately decided I wanted to find a way to preserve and protect the collection," 'shrine' says.
[...] "Scientists in the Reddit threads are sharing stories of how LibGen made their research possible. Unnamed cloud providers have pledged 100TB allocation on their servers. The response has been overwhelmingly positive from everyone."
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
Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Bounces from TLD to TLD
Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can be Dangerously Useful
Paywall: A Documentary About the Movement for Open-Access Science Publishing
Sci-Hub is a web hydra, not unlike The Pirate Bay:
Sci-Hub is often referred to as the "Pirate Bay of Science," and this description has become more and more apt in recent weeks.
Initially, the comparison was made to illustrate that Sci-Hub is used by researchers to download articles for free, much like the rest of the world uses The Pirate Bay to get free stuff.
There are more parallels though. Increasingly, Sci-Hub has trouble keeping its domain names. Following two injunctions in the US, academic publishers now have court orders to compel domain registrars and registries to suspend Sci-Hub's addresses.
Although there is no such court order for The Pirate Bay, the notorious torrent site also has a long history of domain suspensions. Both sites appear to tackle the problem in a similar manner. They simply ignore all enforcement efforts and bypass them with new domains and other circumvention tools. They have several backup domains in place as well as unsuspendable .onion addresses, which are accessible on the Tor network.
Since late November, a lot of Sci-Hub users have switched to Sci-Hub.bz when other domains were suspended. And, when the .bz domain was targeted a few days ago, they moved to different alternatives. It's a continuous game of Whack-a-Mole that is hard to stop.
Don't forget Library Genesis .
Previously: 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
Virginia District Court Demands that ISPs and Search Engines Block Sci-Hub
Sci-Hub Founder Criticises Sudden Twitter Ban Over Over "Counterfeit" Content
Twitter has suspended the account of Sci-Hub, a site that offers a free gateway to paywalled research. The site is accused of violating the counterfeit policy of the social media platform. However, founder Alexandra Elbakyan believes that this is an effort to silence the growing support amidst a high profile court case in India.
[...] In recent weeks, Sci-Hub has become the focus of a high-profile lawsuit in India where Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society want the site blocked. The case isn't as straightforward as in other countries, in part because access to Sci-Hub is seen as vital by many local academics.
Earlier this week, the Indian High Court declared the case an "issue of public importance," inviting experts and scientists to testify on the matter. Meanwhile, however, the pressure on Sci-Hub grows.
Judge: Sci-Hub Blocking Case "Important" For Science, Community Representations Will Be Heard
(Score: 5, Insightful) by cosurgi on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:15PM (1 child)
It's that simple. Publishers can try whatever they want, and try to steal science work in whatever manner they can think of. But scientists are simply smarter.
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#\ @ ? [adom.de] Colonize Mars [kozicki.pl]
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:59PM
I disagree. Scientists support greedy publishers by submitting their work to money-grubbing journals. These collaborators are a disgrace to their profession.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:22PM (1 child)
I used to be really impressed by tools like pubmed and ADS until I saw how scihub is able to host and share all the papers for free. Sure they don't bother with a nice interface or search tools or anything but honestly these things are not necessary. Just host and share the papers based on a unique identifier that is found in the reference section of the papers, that makes for a far superior tool.
But how is scihub funded? Purely donations? How much does it cost to run?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @10:36AM
Completely agree.
Every other site is javascript-laden with search boxes that don't work and tons of redirects to other pages, trying to sell subscriptions, etc. Scihub has one search box that works and it just gives you what you want fast and shuts the fuck up. And the site's written in Russian which I can't even understand.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by idiot_king on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:23PM (20 children)
Just goes to show how deep the Capitalist menace is embedded in our society when knowledge literally isn't free, and not only that, censored in the name of money-making.
They should go after libraries next. Not that capitalists and Trump supporters read books...
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:43PM (18 children)
Heh...
You were saying?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:16PM (13 children)
Heh. If the only way you read books is by using du...
(grin)
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:34PM (12 children)
Of course not. That's what cat is for.
It would have saved me some terrible reads over the years though. Like Rand's novels... Ye flipping gods, man! I don't mind reading a good ranty essay but I fucking well don't want them in my fiction and she felt the need to put one in every third page.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:44PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:54PM (6 children)
Rand's novels. Ickhh... How about 'Abramowitz & Stegun' - a dense 46MB only?
> du -hs Downloads/ebooks
56G Downloads/ebooks
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:22PM (5 children)
Yeah, it pains me that I still ain't recovered from The Great Hard Drive Crash of `12.
I know, back my shit up. Well it just ain't practical to back up as much crap as I keep on my desktop without a tape drive and they're damned expensive. I back up the truly important shat and resign myself to mourning the rest.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:02PM
Less than a tape, better than a desktop - HPE ProLiant MicroServer [hpe.com] - available for $400. Throw in 4 HDDes spinning rust (WD Red 4TB seems to be the present bang for the buck), install your choice of Linux or BSD, config a RAID5 and you have a 12TB, quiet and frugal (30W with AMD processor) NAS box for around $1000-$1200. Mine (with 4x2TB) hasn't had a failure for the last 5+ years since set it up.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:13PM (3 children)
Well it just ain't practical to back up as much crap as I keep on my desktop without a tape drive and they're damned expensive.
You can get a 4TB USB hard drive for $100 now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:41PM (2 children)
What's the transfer time on that 4TB over USB?
How about over USB 2.1? =P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @07:57AM
Probably less than to recreating your data? But you know, YYMV.
(Score: 1) by toddestan on Saturday November 11 2017, @10:58PM
Not particularly quick, but that's why we have incremental backups. Sure, the first time you might have to leave the PC on for a day, but after that it's usually just a few minutes.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:34PM (3 children)
Yeah: Atlas Shrugged, with it's 80 pages of the 'Greatest speech ever given in the history of the world, nay, the universe where Galt says things like "A is A and B is B".
w. t. f!
80 pages of speech that a child (or Donald Trump) seems to have written.
And Capitalists are the greatest beings ever, always paying their employees top dollar and looking out for them in every way {cough}haven't seen that yet in reality{cough}.
Read it through to say i did it, but man, what a slog. Definitely FICTION!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:07PM (2 children)
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @10:40AM (1 child)
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
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.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:51PM
bravo!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:11PM (2 children)
Why did you title your alt-right image directory 'Books'?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday November 08 2017, @09:10PM (1 child)
Busted but no. It's an incomplete collection of your mom's scheisse videos.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @06:05PM
There's a difference?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @05:11PM
And here I was under the impression that all Trump supporters were required to have a copy of Mein Kampf signed by Trump personally at their bedside to read every night.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:43PM
(Score: 5, Informative) by takyon on Wednesday November 08 2017, @01:57PM (2 children)
Lib Gen:
http://93.174.95.27/ [93.174.95.27]
Good.
Sci-Hub:
sci-hub.cc: http://104.18.58.63/ [104.18.58.63]
sci-hub.ac: http://104.31.75.12/ [104.31.75.12]
sci-hub.bz: http://104.28.20.155/ [104.28.20.155]
sci-hub.io: http://104.31.86.37/ [104.31.86.37]
Hmm. Can't imagine they will last very long on Cloudflare.
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:20PM
try scihub22266oqcxt.onion
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:04PM
Like this:
wget --header="Host: foo.bar" http://localhost/ [localhost]
obviously, without the stuff that soylentnews puts after the URL
(Score: 5, Informative) by arcz on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:03PM (2 children)
The court lacks jurisdiction over non-parties. This order is illegal because the recipient of the order must be given both service of process AND an opportunity to object to the order and appeal and whatnot.
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:35PM
Activist judges do whatever the hell they want to do. Remember when California passed a constitutional amendment, defining marriage - and some fucking judge threw it out. Judges are demigods, if they choose to be.
I said what I said. - Sophie Cunningham
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Whoever on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:58PM
What do you mean, surely this is legal under SOPA?
It's just another judge acting like SOPA actually passed.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:04PM (5 children)
Instead, ISPs should blackhole all traffic to and from the district court of Virginia and search engines should remove references as well.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:21PM (2 children)
Why this is a good idea:
* Search engines are not obligated to index anything
* even ISPs really can discriminate traffic thanks to the anti net neutrality Republicans. Maybe ISPs can't "blackhole" traffic, but they can "shape" and rate limit traffic for "network management" purposes.
It's funny how that anti net neutrality sword can cut the other way.
The Jupiter 2 is headed into a region of highly energized saran wrap.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:00PM
You didn't actually give a reason why this was a "good idea" even as sarcasm. The capability to discriminate on search results and internet traffic is not an obligation to do so. Let us keep in mind that the judge could still command this even in the presence of net neutrality laws.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:48PM
And of course, 0 is just a very low rate.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:40PM (1 child)
Where's anonymous with a righteous ddos when you need them?
(Score: 2, Troll) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:47PM
My guess? Partying heavily with the 🎈🍸 Dick niggers 🍺🎈
(thanks, TMB)
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @02:07PM (2 children)
Never heard of Sci-Hub until now. Thanks Virgina!
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday November 08 2017, @03:59PM
I think you'll have to choose between virgin and vagina; as it stands now it looks too much of an ambiguous Freudian slip.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday November 08 2017, @04:38PM
You mean "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.... and it's Virginia!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 08 2017, @06:51PM (1 child)
Anyone know of a torrent to all the papers and a database of their metadata?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 09 2017, @12:30AM
Last i heard they are on Tor. Let them try to block that.
All this does is drive more people under ground, making the next round harder to stop.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Virindi on Wednesday November 08 2017, @07:34PM
Please note that the "United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia" is a FEDERAL court not a state court. This story makes it sound like a STATE court is making this demand.