Marvellous.
... the Swedish Patent and Market Court (which never met a copyright overreach it didn't love) upheld the order ... Bahnhof now blocks attempts to visit Sci-Hub domains, and Elsevier.com [who had brought the suit], redirecting attempts to visit Elsevier to a page explaining how Elsevier's sleaze and bullying have allowed it to monopolize scientific publishing, paywalling publicly funded science that is selected, reviewed and edited by volunteers who mostly work for publicly funded institutions.
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/03/balkanizing-the-balkanizers.html
And from Andres Soolo :
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I regret that I have but one plus to give to this post.
ReplyDeleteThomas Sowell made one of the most profound points about knowledge that I ever heard when he said something like "The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today."
From my perspective, people who gatekeep knowledge, especially when that knowledge properly applied could enable us to progress, are the authors of self inflicted poverty.
Joe Carter - What if the so-called "cavemen" moved to caves out of necessity because the structures they built, which might very well have been one with the environment, could not withstand the cataclysmic events happening at the time?
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