Yoda: 1% Win in Court, Lose in Life — Sci-Hub Marches On…. #GoogleGestapo Expands to Blocking Scientific Information

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Court demands that search engines and internet service providers block Sci-Hub

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has won a lawsuit it filed in June against Sci-Hub, a website providing illicit free access to millions of paywalled scientific papers.

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The new ruling also states that internet search engines, web hosting sites, internet service providers (ISPs), domain name registrars and domain name registries cease facilitating “any or all domain names and websites through which Defendant Sci-Hub engages in unlawful access to, use, reproduction, and distribution of the ACS Marks or ACS's Copyrighted Works.”

Himmelstein’s recent analysis showed that Sci-Hub contains 98.8% of the ACS’ scholarly content and 85% of all paywalled journal content hosted on the registry Crossref. Despite the court order, he suspects that search engines are unlikely to delist Sci-Hub. “The internet freedom movement will take a keen interest in the proceedings,” he says.

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ROBERT STEELE: From Elsivier to Thomson-Reuters to the American Chemical Society, the focus is on trying to hold on to rights they never should have had in the first place. It's over. On the one hand, all previously captive knowledge is now going to be free. Let us remember Aaron Swartz, among others. On the other hand, all of us who create knowledge now refuse to give up original copyright. What the retards at the top should have been doing all this time is creating a proper information management ecology such as Doug Englebart, Robert Garigue, Robert Horn, and myself, one that allows for paragraph-level hyperlinks, micro-cash or alternative valuation measures, and true Open Access as well as Open Data (not the same thing). We are operating on 1% (published) of 1% (written) of 1% (known), and we are processing 1% of what we collect. This is all totally unprofessional and clinically insane.