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.

Wikipedia as DNS

[eis2718bob]

So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).

Re:Not setting a precedent?

[Mal-2]

How exactly is Cloudflare supposed to respond to a court order other than by obeying it? Precedent is irrelevant, this is PMITA prison time we're talking about if they don't comply. Expecting them to do otherwise would be exceptionally foolish.

Re:Dangers of storing your stuff in the Cloud ..

[Mal-2]

And if you don't store it on someone else's hardware, then instead you're vulnerable to having your facilities seized, or your upstream provider pressured into cutting you off. The only hope is to do both, which apparently SciHub was.