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LimeWire was widely used; in 2006, when the lawsuit was filed, it had almost 4 million users per day. [4] LimeWire is a program that uses peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing technology, which permits users to share digital files via an Internet-based network known as Gnutella; most of these were MP3 files containing copyrighted audio recordings.
Library Genesis (LibGen) is a shadow library project for file-sharing access to scholarly journal articles, academic and general-interest books, images, comics, audiobooks, and magazines. The site enables free access to content that is otherwise paywalled or not digitized elsewhere. [ 1 ]
In 2005, Patricia Santangelo made the news by challenging the RIAA's lawsuit against her. While she succeeded in getting the lawsuit against her dismissed two years later, her children were then sued. A default judgment entered against her daughter Michelle for $30,750 for failing to respond to the lawsuit, was subsequently vacated. [59]
In March 2024, BREIN obtained a court order from the Rotterdam District Court for a Dutch ISP to block the Library Genesis and Anna's Archive shadow libraries, thus expanding the existing blocklist under the 2021 covenant. The court issued a dynamic blocking order covering all future domains.
October 2 – The MPAA and the RIAA file a lawsuit against the developers of Kazaa, Morpheus and Grokster [46] [47] that would lead to the US Supreme Court's MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd. decision in 2005. November – GNUnet is first publicly announced. November – DC++ is created for the Direct Connect network and would become the most ...
Class action lawsuits were filed, ... BookFi, BookFinder, Library Genesis, and Sci-Hub – allowed e-book downloading by violating copyright. ...
On June 1, 2020, Hachette Book Group and other publishers, including Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Wiley, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for the National Emergency Library. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The plaintiffs argued that the practice of CDL was illegal and not protected by the doctrine of fair use. [ 11 ]
There were also lawsuits against Sci-Hub and Elbakyan from other publishers and in other countries. On 17 February 2023, a court in India refused to dismiss a blocking application submitted by the legal representatives of the publishers; nonetheless, the legal representatives of Elbakyan are working on a new creative legal strategy, namely the ...