[slimsag]

Sounds like she's been in hiding since 2015[0]:

> Following a 2015 lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan remains in hiding due to the risk of extradition; Elsevier was granted an injunction against her and $15 million in damages. Elbakyan and Sci-Hub were again involved in a US lawsuit in 2017, this time with the American Chemical Society. ACS sued the site for copyright and trademark violations, and conversion. Later that year, the court ruled in favor of ACS, fining Sci-Hub $4,800,000 in damages, enjoining further infringement, and prohibiting search engines and domain name registries from "facilitating access" to Sci-Hub.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Elbakyan#Creating_Sc...

[f311a]

She lives in Russia and attends some local events. There is no reason to hide if you don’t travel outside of Russia.

[guerrilla]

I know Russia has no extradition treaty with the US, but do they never extradite for any reason? Hmm, from what I'm reading on Quora "The Russian Constitution protects its own citizens from extradition to a foreign country." Interesting, I didn't know that.

[poilcn]

Sounds offensive that one's compatriots could be given to another country to be put on trial.

[staticman2]

Not really. If I murder someone while visiting another country it makes sense I'd face justice in the foreign country, where all the witnesses are. Especially if the legal systems are similar.

It becomes more of an issue where one country doesn't trust the legal system of another country.

[shill4humanity]

Brings up a memory of a recent event of an American DUI murder in the UK and leaving before their untrustworthy legal system kicked in.

[lrhegeba]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Harry_Dunn

[Dah00n]

You mean like not extraditing that diplomats wife who killed someone in traffic (DUI) and then ran home to the US?

[hiq]

According to Wikipedia she's a Kazakhstani citizen, not Russian.

[jessriedel]

That's true, but she has spent lots of time living in Russia. At least as of 2019, she refused to tell reporters where exactly she was living.

[viktorcode]

Sometimes they do. There was a scandal some years ago when they extradited an ex-banker, who is a Russian citizen, which was illegal.

[ok123456]

There's an MLAT treaty. It's unlikely she would be extradited, but it's not impossible.

[cblconfederate]

In Kazakhstan

[f311a]

No, she lives in Russia. She also studied in Russia and tried to get Russian citizenship in 2016.

[hirundo]

> and prohibiting search engines and domain name registries from "facilitating access" to Sci-Hub.

I just searched for "sci-hub" on DDG, Google and Bing, and the sci-hub.st or sci-hub.se domain was the top result on each. I wonder what happened to the prohibition.

[concordDance]

Here in the UK the main sci-hub domains are blocked at the ISP level.

We're a very censorous country.

[toomuchtodo]

Does using DNS over HTTPS avoid this block?

Edit: Thank you for the replies.

[scarygliders]

Nope. Just tried.

Hard redirect to http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/?JNI_URL=sci-hub.st/&JNI_R...

[lanerobertlane]

It's very nice of the UK Government to give a nice ordered list of pirate sites to use, as long as you take the 30 seconds required to change your DNS or use a VPN.

[notjes]

Now finally a tax payer funded service by the UK Government that we all can appreciate.

[arp242]

The URL contains "JNI_DSTIP=186.2.163.201&JNI_DSTPORT=80"; so maybe they're intercepting connections to this IP? Does explicitly adding https:// work?

Otherwise there's always Opera where you can just click the "VPN" button.

[beermonster]

DNS-o-TLS and bouncing from a UK-region cloud-provider endpoint works for me. Any ISP blocking (internet censorship in the UK is more rife than you’d expect) is either done via hijacking DNS (which D-o-T mitigates) or if you’ve a consumer ISP connection.

[scarygliders]

And I can't reply to myself above, but after starting ExpressVPN I can access the sites fine.

[dannyw]

Just changing your dns is fine.

[justincormack]

Not by all ISPs, eg my ISP is Andrews and Arnold that does not censor the internet.

[boruto]

Same with Vodafone in Germany.

[ehsankia]

> In 2016, Nature included her in their top ten people that mattered in science list

Heh

[wolverine876]

> Following a 2015 lawsuit brought in the US by the publisher Elsevier, Elbakyan remains in hiding due to the risk of extradition ...

The perils of Wikipedia: That statement is cited to a Science article from 2016. If the citation is accurate (never a sure thing), Science's writer probably would have taken her word for it - it's not a investigative journalism organization - and even if that's all true, it's from 5 years ago.