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Swedish ISP Protests Forced Site Blocking by Blocking Publisher's Website Too


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2018 Nov 3, 1:47pm   561 views  1 comment

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https://torrentfreak.com/swedish-isp-protest-site-blocking-by-blocking-rightsholders-website-and-more-181102/

Bahnhof has suffered a major defeat against publisher Elsevier after a court ordered the Swedish ISP to block a series of domain names, including Sci-Hub. The decision goes against everything the company stands for but it can't ignore the blocking order. Instead, the ISP has gone on the offensive by blocking Elsevier's own website and barring the court from visiting Bahnhof.se.


Elsevier makes money by charging extortionistic fees for access to mostly government-funded research results.

And they are now using the courts to prevent the public from freely seeing the results that their own tax money pays for.

All copyright enforcement is also practice for suppressing politically incorrect views.

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1   Bd6r   2018 Nov 3, 2:20pm  

Patrick says
Elsevier makes money by charging extortionistic fees for access to mostly government-funded research results.

NIH here requires all research funded by them to be publicly accessible, and hosts those articles at PubMed. In case some crazy taxpayer wants to read this, they can. NSF does NOT require research funded by them to be publicly accessible, which is an abomination.

I personally have never published in Elsevier journals and will never publish there. They are pirates.

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