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

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."

Comments

Re:Cloudflare can't keep it's story straight

[halivar]

This isn't about getting into the censorship business. It's about obeying a court order. They do not have the option of demurring.

Re:Cloudflare can't keep it's story straight

[Anonymous Coward]

Kind of missing the point, it shouldn't even BE possible. A _US_ court does not have carte Blanche over the world. I realize that is a hard thing for Americans to understand.

This is just the beginning for Cloudflare's demise. They became a target during the US elections for backing some of the very sites SJW's find repulsive. As the US starts to ramp up their war^Welection machine again, expect more fallout.

They aren't region blocking, but outright banning.

Re:Not setting a precedent?

[AmiMoJo]

Lavabit shutting down denied the government any further access to user's emails and stopped them having to run a known insecure service. Shutting down Cloudflare would do nothing to negatively effect the court of ACS and nothing to prevent Cloudflare having to violate user's privacy.

The two situations are really quite different.