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Swedish ISP Punishes Elsevier for Forcing It to Block Sci-Hub by Also Blocking Elsevier

posted by mrpg on Monday November 05 2018, @05:12AM   
from the REJECT dept.

upstart writes:

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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.

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• Second TorrentFreak article Second TorrentFreak article (Score: 5, Informative) by canopic jug on Monday November 05 2018, @06:17AM (3 children)

  by canopic jug (3949) on Monday November 05 2018, @06:17AM (#757867) Journal

  In addition to the first TorrentFreak article summarized by Boing Boing [torrentfreak.com], there was a second one, ISP Shows How to Unblock The Pirate Bay (and Other Sites) [torrentfreak.com], with additional information. Mainly it shows that Bahnhof's press release gives details on how its subscribers can easily evade the blocking order themselves.

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• Install a TOR proxy + proxy.pac Install a TOR proxy + proxy.pac (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:21PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:21PM (#757968)

  When I first found some of my usual web sites blackholed [wikipedia.org] realized that the isp dns where also changed to localhost.
  So the easy fix for me was to use my TOR proxy and a Proxy Auto-Configuration [wikipedia.org] proxy.pac file for the browser to automatically and transparently redirect all sites with a tampered dns thru TOR.
  A side effect is that usually I'm late to realize that some site has been blackholed because it never stopped working.

  function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
  {
      var proxy_tor = "SOCKS5 127.0.0.1:9050"; // TOR proxy
      var onion_url = "[a-zA-Z0-9]{16}.onion*";
      if (shExpMatch(url, "*tp://" + onion_url) || shExpMatch(url, "*tps://" + onion_url)) {
          alert("TOR to connect:\nproxy_tor=" + proxy_tor + "\nhost=" + host);
          return proxy_tor;
      }
      var dns_host = dnsResolve(host);
      if (!isResolvable(host) || isInNet(dns_host, "127.0.0.0", "255.255.255.0")) {
          alert("Not resolvable host: " + dns_host + " TOR to connect to: " + url);
          return proxy_tor;
      }
  }

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  • Re:Install a TOR proxy + proxy.pac (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:29PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @01:29PM (#757969)

    Missed the

    return "DIRECT";
    }

    at the end of FindProxyForURL if no matches (while simplifying the code, my proxy.pac is much more complex).

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  • Re:Install a TOR proxy + proxy.pac (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:04PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @08:04PM (#758664)

    I redirect lookups to the autoritative name servers of the domain with pdnsd (I hear unbound is nice too).

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