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Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages from Sci-Hub and Libgen

posted by cmn32480 on Friday May 19 2017, @04:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-reap-what-you-sow dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

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

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by urza9814 on Saturday May 20 2017, @02:29AM (1 child)

    by urza9814 (3954) on Saturday May 20 2017, @02:29AM (#512490) Journal

    If a quantum attack against the block chain is possible, then it also stands to reason that almost all other forms of cryptographic signatures are vulnerable to. In that case, the only answer is quantum devices that use quantum principles to lock information into a "domain" that can only be accessed with specific attributes of the user. Unfortunately, I don't even know of any that are theorized, much less their abilities to perform key exchange and transmit attributes to other users remotely.

    No, there's classical public-key encryption methods that should be able to resist quantum attacks.

    Many such approaches are listed on the Wikipedia page for Post-quantum cryptography:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography [wikipedia.org]

    And there's open source tools to do it:
    https://github.com/exaexa/codecrypt [github.com]

    So yes, most current algorithms are probably vulnerable, but we can fix that without needing full quantum encryption tech. Which is great news since the bad guys are probably gonna have quantum computers long before we do...

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  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:26AM

    by edIII (791) on Saturday May 20 2017, @05:26AM (#512530)

    Which is great news since the bad guys are probably gonna have quantum computers long before we do...

    IIRC, IBM is already recruiting developers and promising to open up computing time to others in a quantum VPS. They're actively trying to create a community now.

    Thanks for the links.

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