Re: F Y I

[Alain Hebert <ahebert () pubnix net>]

    Well,

    We could also break that 200yo+ paradigm of having a paywall for 
what should pretty much be free.

        Like that media supply chain still forcing licensing per country...

    And yes $35USD can be a lot of money for people that are hungry for 
both food and knowledge.

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On 10/19/17 12:07, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 11:57 AM, João Butzke <lista-gter () tbonet net br>
> wrote:
>
> > it worked here in Brazil against whatsapp.
> there are lots of cases of this sort of tomfoolery "working"... in part or
> in whole.
> Lee's point is it's dumb to offload this problem on every ISP in the
> jurisdiction, AND it's also not going to really fix the problem if the
> application is accessible via 'vpn' services (tor, real-vpns, etc).
>
> it's just sort of dumb all the way around :(
>
>
> > Em 19/10/2017 13:49, Lee Howard escreveu:
> >
> > > On 10/17/17, 5:33 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Christopher Morrow"
> > > <nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> > >
> > > you know, the Sci-Hub folk could fix this themselves... with some
> > > > authentication requirements... and probably by just unplugging from the
> > > > intertubes?
> > > "Sci-Hub’s founder, has previously told The Scientist the site plans to
> > > ignore the lawsuit.” How would Sci-Hub consider this a “fix”?
> > >
> > > What enforcement mechanism would the Court have against Sci-Hub?
> > >
> > > The idea of making third parties (ISPs) incur costs (updating ACLs or
> > > poisoning DNS) to enforce the order is pretty bad, and doesn’t stop Tor
> > > access. Sorry I didn’t have a chance to file an amicus before the ruling
> > > tomorrow.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Lee
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA)
> > > > <mathews () hawaii edu>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub
> > > > > The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions
> > > > > of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers
> > > > > and search engines.
> > > > > By Diana Kwon | October 4, 2017
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50563/
> > > > > title/Judge-Recommends-Ruling-to-Block-Internet-Access-to-Sci-Hub/
> > > > > http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50361/
> > > > > title/Publishers--Legal-Action-Advances-Against-Sci-Hub/