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French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Its always DNS first and everyone says "lol, just change your DNS" and then they start doing real blocks. Optus in Australia did an IP level block of 4chan recently.

Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I don't know much about 4chan - why block 4chan?

New Zealand and Australia recently went on a "do something" tear regarding the mosque shooting. Sites where the video or manifesto was posted got blocked, including 4chan. And yes, you read that right, New Zealand made it a crime to distribute a specific piece of text data.

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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>The court order targets a total of 57 domain names, including various mirror sites. The academic publishers had asked the court for a more flexible blocklist, which they could update whenever new domains would become available, but this was denied. If the publishers want to expand the blocklist, they will have to go back to court. This ensures that there remains judicial oversight over local website blockades. Also,…

Good luck trying to make Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), Google (8.8.8.8) or Quad9 (9.9.9.9) to make exceptions for a single geographical area. =)

Those are mirrored around the world and likely physically inside France. You don't want trans-Atlantic latency on your DNS lookups.

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Its always DNS first and everyone says "lol, just change your DNS" and then they start doing real blocks. Optus in Australia did an IP level block of 4chan recently.

Yeah, everyone is so defiant that they don't realize that IP and VPN blocks are coming if we continue down this road.

The UK is already there.

My VPN was blocked recently and I had to go to my network provider with my ID to prove my age(?!) so I could access my VPN again. I was not impressed.

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Why do the French have such a hard-on for copyright enforcement? (Honest question)

I don't think it's specific to France. UK has random torrent websites banned the same way. Some regulation comes from EU, which has then been implemented by countries in EU: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive

Publishers used the existing laws to get this ban, as they already did in other countries. I wouldn't be surprised they've started some similar actions in other countries and will end up with similar results.

Honestly, almost every country has copyright laws, so allow this kind of lawsuit.

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I don't know much about 4chan - why block 4chan?

4chan is a relatively popular anonymous image board, based on a Japanese language image board (2ch) but with mostly English language users. It's administration are known to be quite lax with content; if it's not outright illegal to host they'll generally let it slide in their NSFW boards. To use a recent example, their Adult GIF board right now, while flooded mostly with pornography, is currently housing uncensored f…

There's a huge irony here in that major news outlets in Australia including Rupert Murdochs SkyNews all showed uncensored footage, some of it autoplaying and profited from doing so.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/15/australian-med...

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, everyone is so defiant that they don't realize that IP and VPN blocks are coming if we continue down this road.

The UK is already there. My VPN was blocked recently and I had to go to my network provider with my ID to prove my age(?!) so I could access my VPN again. I was not impressed.

What VPN was blocked?

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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I guess because it's the law, and governments are supposed to enforce the law.

I'm slightly baffled by the difference, though, as some other laws are not enforced. For instance, the case where directors of a tyre manufacturer were forcibly taken hostage and physically abused by the workers. Normally, you'd send in the police, arrest hostage-takers and give them long imprisonment.

Yes, that was appalling. I guess the directors were expecting the SWAT/GIGN to come, but hours passed and they had to sign documents, and the signature was deemed valid. I don’t even know if the directors were fed or could gonto the bathrooms during that hostage situation.

Torture at its best.

Re: French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen

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Sorry if this sounds stupid, but I don't know much about 4chan - why block 4chan?

New Zealand and Australia recently went on a "do something" tear regarding the mosque shooting. Sites where the video or manifesto was posted got blocked, including 4chan. And yes, you read that right, New Zealand made it a crime to distribute a specific piece of text data.

Which if you read that "specific piece of text data" is the outcome the murderer wanted. They responded exactly how he desired.
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