The issue at the centre of the case is that Ms. Rowling, as an author, has an exclusive right to commercially exploit her work. She was willing to turn a blind eye to the freely-accessible web site (as she was perfectly entitled to do) but not to see a book commercially published which violated her copyright and which would have inevitably damaged sales of a book she was intending to write herself.
Please do read the judgement, Axel, if you haven't already done so.
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