Libgen got served with a $30 million dollar copyright infringement decision. This is on top of a $15 million dollar decision against them from 2017, making a grand total of $45 million dollars.
The obstacle, like with most piracy websites, is that the sites owners work hard to stay anonymous and thus are hard to track down for payment. I mean, if Web Hosts and others who actively enable online piracy were held accountable for the actions of not stopping the piracy, we imagine these users might miraculously become a little less anonymous. As the phrase always goes, “Follow the money.”
One unique feature of this copyright decision is that it also goes as far as to say, “all those in active concert or participation with” Libgen must comply with the order … which INCLUDES web hosts.
We shall see if it has any effect. Hopefully it does.
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