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Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’
A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.
The Brussels court, after reviewing these arguments and the submitted evidence, concluded that there was a prima facie case of “clear and significant infringement,” which justified granting a provisional blocking order against Open Library and the other targeted sites. In addition to requiring ISPs, including Elon Musk’s Starlink, to block the library’s domain names, it also directs a broad range of other intermediaries to take action. The following companies must terminate hosting, and deactivate or suspend the domain names of the target sites: Hostinger, GoDaddy, Amazon Web Services, SEDO, Cloudflare, Unmanaged Ltd, AlexHost, and Internet Archive.
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