Cloudflare Terminates Service to 'The Pirate Bay of Science' - Motherboard

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Summary:

"...On February 3, the Twitter account for Sci-Hub tweeted a screenshot of an alleged email from Cloudflare, the content delivery network provider for Sci-Hub (which acts as an intermediary between the user and website host), informing Sci-Hub that its service would be terminated in 24 hours. At the time of writing, the main Sci-Hub domain is inaccessible on the web, but the mirror sites mentioned in the screenshotted email from Cloudflare are still active.

Cloudflare’s termination of service is due to a court injunction against Sci-Hub, a Cloudflare spokesperson told me over the phone. That order was handed down by a federal judge in November when the American Chemical Society, another academic publisher, won $4.8 million in damages against Sci-Hub. The decision also included an injunction requiring search engines and internet service providers to block Sci-Hub, a digital blockade unusual for the US...."

Link:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59kgv5/cloudflare-terminates-service-to-the-pirate-bay-of-science

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Date tagged:

02/10/2018, 12:10

Date published:

02/10/2018, 07:32