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Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library'

Friday August 1, 2025. 09:24 PM , from Slashdot
Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library'
A Brussels court has issued an unusually broad site-blocking order targeting Internet Archive's Open Library alongside shadow libraries including Anna's Archive, Libgen, and Z-Library. The order, requested by publishing and author organizations, directs an unprecedented range of intermediaries to take action beyond traditional ISP blocks.

Search engines, DNS resolvers, advertisers, domain name services, CDNs, hosting companies, and payment processors -- including Google, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, PayPal, and Starlink -- must restrict access to the targeted sites. The court found 'clear and significant infringement' in the ex parte proceeding.

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