Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions" ever issued by a US court.

As the time this was posted, this page loads. https://libgen.is/
So does http://libgen.st/
http://libgen.rs/ no longer resolves to an IP address.
https://singlelogin.re/ also still loads. This is Z Library.

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also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICanHazPDF