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Last month a New York District Court issued a preliminary injunction against several sites that provide unauthorized access to academic journals.

As a result the operators were ordered to quit offering access to any Elsevier content and the associated registries had to suspend their domain names.

After a few days the registries did indeed disable the domain names mentioned in the lawsuit which are currently all unavailable, much to the disappointment of the sites’ users.

However, the operators of Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen have no intention of complying with the U.S. court order. Instead, they’re rendering the domain suspensions ineffective by switching to several new ones.

At the time of writing LibGen is readily available again via several alternative domains. Except from a new URL, not much has changed and the site is fully operational. Similarly, BookFi is also accessible via various domains including Bookfi.info.

The same is true for Sci-Hub, which changed its address to a .io domain. TF spoke with the site’s operator, Alexandra Elbakyan, who confirmed the move and is still hopeful that she can get the original domain back.

“Several new domains are operating already,” Elbakyan says. “For some reason, I think that in future justice will prevail and all our domains will be unblocked.”

To make sure that the site remains accessible, Sci-Hub also added an .onion address which allows users to access the site via Tor, and bypass any future domain name suspensions.

Despite the domain problems and a disappointing court order, Elbakyan is glad that the case brought attention to the paywall problems academia faces.

“In some sense, this case was helpful: more people now agree that copyright should be destroyed, and that academic publishing needs serious reform,” Sci-Hub’s operator says.

“Before, many people would say: why bother acting against copyright laws if they can be so easily bypassed? Or what is the point in an open access movement if anyone can download any paid article for free?”

Elsevier may have the law on their side, but the largest academic publisher can’t count on universal support from the academic community.

In recent weeks many scientists and scholars have come out in support of Sci-Hub, BookFi and LibGen, arguing that access to academic research should be free and universal.

For Elbakyan and others this support offers enough motivation to continue what they do.

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Steal This Show (STS) is a TF-supported initiative produced by Jamie King, who’s known for the Steal This Film documentaries and the independent filmmaker platform VODO.

STS plans to release high quality episodes featuring insiders discussing copyright and file-sharing news. It complements our regular reporting by adding more room for opinion, commentary and analysis.

The guests for our news discussions will vary and we’ll aim to introduce voices from different backgrounds and persuasions. In addition to news, STS will also produce features interviewing some of the big innovators and minds, one-on-one.

Below is the first pilot of STS’s first discussion show, we hope you enjoy it.

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STEAL THIS SHOW E1: Fight For The Future

Host: Jamie King

Guests: Tiffiniy Cheng and Holmes Wilson

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Produced by Jamie King
Edited & Mixed by Eric Bouthiller
Original Music by David Triana

Topics being discussed this week:

Fight For The Future

Popcorn Time’s Alive, Full Comeback In the Works

Anne Frank Scandal: An Underreported Copyright Monopoly Abuse

EU Court of Justice to Decide on Legality of Pirate Bay Blockades

Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)

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Leitung tot, Internet tot: Am Vormittag des 21. November 2015 hat ein Stromausfall in einem Rechenzentrum zu Störungen im Telefonnetz und im Internet geführt. (Telekommunikation)

BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone is now available, and not surprisingly, the $699 BlackBerry Priv feels a bit like a mix between a classic BlackBerry phone and a modern Android device. It has a large touchscreen display, support for over a million Android apps, and decent camera. But it also has a physical keyboard that hides behind […]

Closer look at the BlackBerry Priv (video) is a post from: Liliputing

Gäste von Hotels der Kette Starwood sollten ihre Kreditkartenabrechnungen überprüfen: Kassensysteme in mehr als 50 Hotels in Nordamerika wurden mit einer Schadsoftware infiziert. (Security, Malware)

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The Internet today is awash with millions of items of infringing content and links to the same and as long as Internet users have free will that position is unlikely to change.

Nevertheless, the situation for copyright holders is far from hopeless and those who feel their rights are being abused have remedies available. Provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allow copyright owners to order hosts, websites and search engines to take down infringing content. And, to avoid being held liable, those providers must do so quickly.

However, copyright holders feel that the DMCA lets them down. They complain that despite sending millions of notices, sooner or later the same content reappears, having been reuploaded by humans or reindexed by automated systems. What is needed, they argue, is a system that requires content to remain down once it has been taken down.

The ‘Take Down, Stay Down’ movement even has its own website but campaigning for legislative change that erodes safe harbors for legitimate service providers is an extremely sensitive topic for all in the technology sector. Nevertheless, that’s what Hollywood and the major record labels want long-term.

So as companies including Google come under continued pressure to move towards a ‘take down, stay down’ response to copyright complaints, just how willing will they be to accommodate such a regime? Well, if comments made this week by a Google counsel are anything to go by, not very keen at all.

Speaking at the Academy of European Law’s Annual Copyright Conference, Google copyright counsel Cédric Manara poured cold water on the idea.

Manara told the conference that takedowns have a limited effect and when applied to search engines a ‘Take Down, Stay Down’ regime is “not a solution and just does not work,” IP Magazine reports.

Importantly, Manara explained that applying such a regime to search engines is problematic, since such intermediaries can’t block content they don’t host.

“The Internet is a game of ‘whack-a-mole’. Blocked and removed content will be reposted back online, which is a key problem. When one road is cut off, other roads will appear leading to other directions,” he said.

Also of interest is the whole concept of content staying down on a permanent basis following a copyright complaint. While content might be unauthorized today, it’s possible that it may not be so in the future. Equally, the process isn’t flexible enough to accommodate everyone’s legal status when it comes to using content.

“Take down stay down doesn’t understand an authorized user, so it can have an overreaching effect and go too far,” Manara said. “Additionally, stay down is forever, whereas copyright has a term.”

While it may not prove popular with frustrated copyright holders desperate to stop whacking moles, Manara has an excellent point. While Disney might be well within its rights to protect its content today, removing it from any number of providers on an infinite basis clearly has implications when such content falls into the public domain, for example.

Of course, stifling the future and legal use of copyright works probably isn’t what most small copyright holders are trying to achieve when they ask for content to stay down once taken down. However, the current conversation is very broad in scope and definitely has the potential to cause unintended consequences that some corporate giants will be happy to exploit.

As the discussion develops, Google and other stakeholders will be keen to tread very carefully.

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Vaterschaftsurlaub für den Facebook-Gründer: Marc Zuckerberg will nach der Geburt seiner Tochter pausieren, um sich der Familie zu widmen. (Mark Zuckerberg, Soziales Netz)

Auch uns hat in dieser Woche der Terror in Paris beschäftigt. Wie kommunizieren die Attentäter? Und was kann Anonymous dagegen tun? Daneben gab es auch noch technische Themen - wie die Steam Machine und Star Wars Battlefront. Sieben Tage und viele Meldungen im Überblick. (Golem-Wochenrückblick, Steam)