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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: 2) by sjames on Monday November 05 2018, @10:22AM (1 child)
Indeed, government, like a gun may be considered to be a tool. And this was a serious misuse of a tppl. You may have missed the way I pointed out a serious disconnect that takes place in the mind of a person who is pro gun but anti government when they claim that tool is blameless in the former case but the tool carries all of the blame in the second.
Considering that you see the point but couldn't resist the troll mod, I'm guessing something in that line of reasoning makes you uncomfortable.
I do see your point as well. Government doesn't go blameless in this case, but neither does Elsevier. Of course, I would likewise remind the strict gun control advocate that the person holding the gun is hardly blameless for the gun violence.
(Score: 1) by Arik on Monday November 05 2018, @02:10PM
You're misunderstanding, I didn't see your point until after modding.
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