French Court Orders Blocking Access to Z Library - Good e-Reader

"A French court has ordered the piracy site Z Library to be taken down, Publishing Perspective reported. The court ruling comes in response to a case filed by the French Publishers Association, the Syndicat national de l’édition or SNE which alleged Z Library adopted unfair means to distribute e-books that infringed upon the copyright of the respective authors.

A dozen of the most prominent publishing houses in France helped SNE in the court proceedings. Those include Actes Sud, Albin Michel, Cairn, Editis, Hachette Livre, Humensis, Lefebvre-Sarrut, LexisNexis, Madrigall, Maison des Langues, Odile Jacob, and Presses de Science Po. As per the ruling of the Paris Judicial Court, the internet service providers will have to block access to 98 domain names in total along with any extensions to mirror sites that might be in existence...."