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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 urza9814 on Tuesday November 06 2018, @02:58PM
Eh, I see people post scientific studies in Facebook comments. Sometimes academics want to access these from home, either to do work outside of the office or to work on hobby ideas or just to argue with their friends and family.
Previously, they could use Sci-Hub, no problem. With Sci-Hub blocked, they're more likely to turn to Elsevier. Of course, someone has to pay for that, but I'm guessing there's some mechanism where universities/corporations could pay for personal access by their employees. But if the ISP blocks Elsevier too, that won't work. Probably the solution then becomes a VPN back to the university, but then they can likely use the existing university access rather than paying Elsevier extra for personal accounts.
Elsevier wouldn't be paying to fight this battle if they didn't expect to profit from it in the end. Cutting them off from their potential customers seems like a decent way to make that plan backfire. One ISP alone isn't going to do it, but maybe the idea can spread...