Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New #SciHub Domains
The amended injunction now requires search engines, hosting companies, domain registrars, and [other providers] to cease facilitating access to Sci-Hub.
Several service providers are not receptive to US Court orders. One example is Iceland’s domain registry ... at the time of writing, http://sci-hub.is/ is still widely available.
https://torrentfreak.com/publisher-gets-carte-blanche-to-seize-new-sci-hub-domains-180410/
Oh, I suspect it'll stay online in some form until they arrest the operator. It's very difficult to block a Tor site without seizing or hacking the site itself, for example.
But yeah, I would have problems if it went offline.
@muninn god bless sci-hub
@muninn I couldn't see how to actually help sci-hub. It seems to me that sci-hub should use some kind of federating like hubzilla or nextcloud or something to be more redundant.
@muninn The question now is, will the Internet regard the ACS and the court system as damage and route around them?
@bstacey
I think so. I suspect this is pushing Sci-Hub towards Tor. I do hope that somebody is working on an alternative or that the founder has shared her code and data though, because I suppose it's inevitable that she'll be arrested or that the servers will be seized. I'd be curious to know how the site is architected.
@muninn “Further complicating matters, some registries, registrars, and Internet service providers have refused to disable newer Sci-Hub domain names that were not specifically identified in the Complaint or the injunction”
I'd really like to know which registries so I can move all my domains to one of them. No registrar should be removing domains without a court order.
@muninn I'd also like to thank TF for publishing the scihub22266oqcxt.onion link since obviously that's not getting taken down.
@muninn rip sci-hub.