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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @09:48AM (5 children)
I'm more surprised that an ISP stood up to Elsevier. I had the impression ISPs wouldn't be bothered since research should be a tiny insignificant fraction of internet traffic. Either way, hats off to Bahnhof!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @02:02PM
First they came... [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday November 05 2018, @04:47PM
AND in case Elsevier gets pissed off, Bahnhof already has its own nuclear bunker [bahnhof.net]! How cool is that!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:15PM
my thoughts exactly. very rare indeed. maybe as Generation Whore retires more people with crazy ideas about freeing information will take the reigns and we can show these pigs who's boss.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @08:57PM
Not surprising at all. The smaller the fish the bigger the threats.
Big isps could have some leverage and economy of scale. It may temporarily hurt their bottom line but always will stay afloat.
Small isps would have none but significant and unproductive costs. Won't just hurt, in the long run is a dead sentence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @07:49PM
It is exactly the kind of thing Bahnhof does.