Sci-Hub: Researchers File Intervention Application To Fight ISP Blocking * TorrentFreak
peter.suber's bookmarks 2021-11-20
Summary:
"Eleven months ago, academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley, and American Chemical Society filed a lawsuit in India demanding that local ISPs should block subscriber access to Sci-Hub and Libgen....
Early January 2021, scientists, academics, teachers and students came out in opposition to the blocking application. As a result, Justice JR Midha at the Delhi High Court said that dissenting voices would be heard before a final decision is made, adding that the case and its implications were a matter of “public importance“.
Assisted and represented by the Delhi-based Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF), a group of social science researchers affiliated with universities across Delhi has now filed an intervention application that aims to educate the High Court on the negative implications of ordering local ISPs to block the platforms....
The seven social science researchers behind the application are Tejaswi Chhatwal, Jagannath Kumar Yadav, Madhurima Kundu, Chitrangada Sharma, Piyush Chhabra, Rini Dasgupta and Srishti Walia. All study human society and human behavior and as such their work contributes to policymaking and the development of India...."