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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lee Howard)
Fri Oct 20 03:48:04 2017

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:49:49 -0400
From: Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>,
 "Robert Mathews (OSIA)" <mathews@hawaii.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAL9jLab5VOXQeOFOs9EjS10scTYDuvQaRCiehucyVwz1GU0zkA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 10/17/17, 5:33 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Christopher Morrow"
<nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

>you know, the Sci-Hub folk could fix this themselves... with some
>authentication requirements... and probably by just unplugging from the
>intertubes?

"Sci-Hub=E2=80=99s founder, has previously told The Scientist the site plans to
ignore the lawsuit.=E2=80=9D How would Sci-Hub consider this a =E2=80=9Cfix=E2=80=9D?

What enforcement mechanism would the Court have against Sci-Hub?

The idea of making third parties (ISPs) incur costs (updating ACLs or
poisoning DNS) to enforce the order is pretty bad, and doesn=E2=80=99t stop Tor
access. Sorry I didn=E2=80=99t have a chance to file an amicus before the ruling
tomorrow.



Lee


>
>On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 5:04 PM, Robert Mathews (OSIA)
><mathews@hawaii.edu>
>wrote:
>
>>
>> Judge Recommends Ruling to Block Internet Access to Sci-Hub
>> The American Chemical Society seeks a broad order that includes millions
>> of dollars in damages and demands action from Internet service providers
>> and search engines.
>> By Diana Kwon | October 4, 2017
>>
>> http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50563/
>> title/Judge-Recommends-Ruling-to-Block-Internet-Access-to-Sci-Hub/
>> http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/50361/
>> title/Publishers--Legal-Action-Advances-Against-Sci-Hub/
>>
>



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