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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
(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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(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/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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. ---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.
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(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.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(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.
Young people won't believe you if you say you used to get Netflix by US Postal Mail.
(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/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(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. ---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.