On a related note, a big online library of Russian books is managed from Ecuador (used to be hosted there as well). They used to openly call themselves pirates

On a related note, a big online library of Russian books is managed from Ecuador (used to be hosted there as well). They used to openly call themselves pirates, but Russian publishers couldn't do much to the site legally due to Ecuador copyright laws. Publishers then tried to bring the site down by DOS attacks, but didn't quite succeed.