Nah, they are totally suing (http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i27/Lawsuits-progress-against-Sci-Hub.html http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i27/Lawsuits-progress-agai

Nah, they are totally suing (http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i27/Lawsuits-progress-against-Sci-Hub.html http://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i27/Lawsuits-progress-against...). I think part of the reason they are not shut down yet is because Russia. Also, scihub is a huge threat to their business -- they have close to 100% of Elseviers content stored, and greater than 2/3rds of the overall scientific corpus (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirated-papers-so-big-subscription-journals-are-doomed-data-analyst http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/sci-hub-s-cache-pirat...).