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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: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Monday November 05 2018, @05:53AM (4 children)
This isn't about privatization of research, this is about a company whose function is purely parasitic.
At one time, there was a significant cost involved in the process of printing documents. Elsevier has never paid for the editorial costs of publishing, and the cost of publishing on the Internet is close to zero. Elsevier thrives because of a perceived notion that their publications are somehow the only way to ensure authoritative scientific papers are published. It's parasitic.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:21AM (3 children)
Elsevier is part of the existing paradigm of poorly defined property rights.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Monday November 05 2018, @07:26AM (2 children)
Kill this concrete parasite first, we'll deal with the nebulous 'paradigm of poorly defined property rights' after.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday November 05 2018, @08:31AM (1 child)
I'm not saying it is the worst possibility.
It's not the best though, and that's for certain.
Under the existing paradigm what they do makes perfect sense. And they are parasites, beyond any doubt.
If this does not cause you to question the paradigm itself, then what would?
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday November 05 2018, @10:06AM
By mergers and acquisitions, the number of big parasites in scientific publishing are small.
If my assertion is right (I might be wrong, but I don't think I'm very far away), in this case this may work well enough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0