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Not sure what you mean, but Sci-hub was sued in 2015 by Elsevier. Nothing really happened because Sci-hub is hosted in Russia.

• vertex-four 9y ago
  At this point, the media companies would've gone through the courts to either have the .io registrars take away their domain name - like they've done repeatedly with various torrent sites - or have ISPs in many countries block the domain by name. Whether they're based in Russia is irrelevant to that.
  • mirimir 9y ago
    Sure, that could happen. But hosting from Russia will likely protect them. And they can use other domain names, and Tor onions. But they can't travel outside Russia, for fear of arrest. As it went down for BTC-e.
    • vertex-four 9y ago
      You can always get around the block no matter what, but if the goal is to ensure that as few people as possible use Sci-Hub, using the court systems that exist to have its domains seized and/or blocked would be a first step. Requiring that people use a proxy or Tor to access the site increases the barrier to entry significantly from where it is now.