Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsholders Website Too

Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by 0xfaded on Saturday November 03, 2018 @12:54PM (#18371184)

I wonder if the order was vague enough that it would allow them to comply by blocking the scihub domains but resolving elsevier to a scihub ip

I mean technically the requested URL was blocked, right?

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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by gpm on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:17PM (#18371312)

That sounds like a good way to go from "block $x" to a new judgment that says "pay $y".

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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by calcifer on Saturday November 03, 2018 @01:26PM (#18371366)

As the article says, they have also blocked Elsevier's website :)

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Re:Swedish ISP Protests ‘Site Blocking’ by Blocking Rightsho... by natch on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:37PM (#18372893)

Whoosh...

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