Pirate Library WeLib Hit With $19.5m Default Judgment and Domain Takedown Order

A New York federal judge has awarded thirteen major publishers $19.5 million in damages in their lawsuit against pirate library WeLib. The default judgment also orders registries, registrars and hosting providers, including Cloudflare and Njalla, to take the site's domains offline. Whether the publishers will ever see any money is doubtful, as WeLib's operators have yet to be identified.