Paris's High Court has ordered French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries LibGen and Sci-Hub

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Summary:

"For more than a decade, publishing research articles have been a lucrative business for research institutes. As a result, some sites such as Sci-Hub and LibGen have gained popularity because of offering free access to scientific articles obtained through web scraping.

For instance, Sci-Hub has more than 25 million articles, readily accessible by researchers from all over the world. But Sci-Hub and LibGen have come under intense pressure from academic publishers who are not happy with the service.

The academic publishers believe Sci-Hub and LibGen are pirate libraries which are a threat to their multi-billion dollar industry. The publishers have unsuccessfully drafted ways to shut the services down through lawsuits.

But on March 31, there was a victorious breakthrough for the academic publishers after the French Judiciary ordered several of the largest French ISPs to block access to the pirate libraries; LibGen and Sci-Hub...."

Link:

https://reclaimthenet.org/pariss-high-court-has-ordered-french-isps-to-block-access-to-the-pirate-libraries-libgen-and-sci-hub/

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Tags:

oa.new oa.france oa.litigation oa.sci-hub oa.libgen oa.access oa.copyright oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

04/03/2019, 17:11

Date published:

04/03/2019, 13:11