Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday February 5, 2018 @08:10AM from the roadblocks dept.

While Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world, copyright holders are doing everything in their power to wipe the site from the web. From a report: Last weekend another problem appeared for Sci-Hub. This time American Chemical Society (ACS) went after CDN provider Cloudflare, which informed the site that a court order requires the company to disconnect several domain names. "Cloudflare has received the attached court order, Case 1:17-cv-OO726-LMB-JFA," the company writes. "Cloudflare will terminate your service for the following domains sci-hub.la, sci-hub.tv, and sci-hub.tw by disabling our authoritative DNS in 24 hours." According to Sci-Hub's operator, losing access to Cloudflare is not "critical," but it may "cause a short pause in website operation."

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Wikipedia as DNS by eis2718bob · 2018-02-05 08:56 · Score: 4, Funny

So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).
1. Re:Wikipedia as DNS by TechyImmigrant · 2018-02-05 09:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).
  Be careful! You'll attract the HOSTS file guy.
  
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  I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.