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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by acdha on Monday February 05, 2018 @05:42PM (#16312926)
How does censorship resistance work in this case? Simply by giving the rights holders more targets to sue / have taken offline?
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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by Rjevski on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @03:06AM (#16315003)
Exactly, which is extremely effective - good luck suing someone in China who doesn't give a fuck about US copyright (and in this case rightly so).
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Re:Cloudflare Terminates Service to Sci-Hub Domain Names by acdha on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:01AM (#16316590)
So in other words, the technology doesn't have any particular benefits in this regard — all of the advantages come from hosting somewhere without a high enforcement risk.
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