I'm not sure how effective a US based judgement will be on a pirate site in the Ukraine. But it does say the site was shut down.
Amazon, Lee Child & John Grisham Win $7.8m Judgment Against eBook Pirates
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In a summer 2020 lawsuit, Amazon Content Services, publisher Penguin Random House and several authors including John Grisham and Lee Child, accused several pirate eBook sites of infringing their copyrights.
The sites, which operated under the ‘Kiss Library’ brand, were available from domains including Kissly.net, Wtffastspring.bid, Libly.net, and Cheap-Library.com. Together they provided access to copyrighted works at “unbeatable prices”, largely due to the eBooks being pirated, the plaintiffs said.
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U.S. District Court Grants Win to Authors Guild Members, Amazon Publishing, and Penguin Random House in Kiss Library Piracy Suit
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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The U.S. Court for the Western District of Washington awarded $7.8 million in statutory damages to 12 Authors Guild members, Amazon Publishing, and Penguin Random House for 52 acts of copyright infringement in a default judgment against Kiss Library, permanently shutting down the Ukraine-based piracy ring. In a decisive opinion on December 20, 2021, Judge Marsha Pechman, senior district judge for the Western District, decided all claims for the plaintiffs and awarded $150,000 per infringed book, the maximum penalty allowed under U.S. law. The plaintiffs filed suit against the book piracy entity and its operators on July 7, 2020.
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Amazon, Lee Child & John Grisham Win $7.8M Default Judgment In Ebook Piracy Lawsuit
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The operators had failed to failed to answer a July 2020 lawsuit claiming they had pirated the ebooks for sale across multiple websites, including domains such as Kissly.net, Libly.net, Wtffastspring.bid, and Cheap-Library.com. Judge Marsha Pechman, senior district judge for the Western District, awarded the plaintiffs $150,000 per copyright infringement on December 20, 2021 — the maximum legal penalty under US law.
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