Belgium Targets Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order (Update) * TorrentFreak

peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-08-02

Summary:

"The Business Court in Brussels, Belgium, has issued a broad site-blocking order that aims to restrict access to shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, OceanofPDF, Z-Library, and the Internet Archive's Open Library. In addition to ISP blocks, the order also directs search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs and hosting companies to take action. For now, Open Library doesn't appear to be actively blocked."

Link:

https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-targets-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) ยป peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.belgium oa.litigation oa.censorship oa.libgen oa.internet_archive oa.copyright oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

08/02/2025, 09:54

Date published:

08/02/2025, 05:54