{"id":957444,"date":"2025-08-25T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T04:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957444"},"modified":"2025-08-25T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:38:12","slug":"online-piracy-delhi-hc-asks-government-to-block-access-to-shadow-libraries-sci-hub-libgen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/25\/online-piracy-delhi-hc-asks-government-to-block-access-to-shadow-libraries-sci-hub-libgen\/","title":{"rendered":"Online piracy: Delhi HC asks government to block access to shadow libraries Sci-Hub, Libgen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered an immediate ban on shadow libraries including Sci-Hub and Libgen in India. The Court directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to block access to these websites within 24 hours. <\/p>\n<p>The case against these platforms dates back to 2020, when leading academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley Periodicals and the American Chemical Society filed a suit alleging copyright infringement. They argued that shadow libraries were \u201csubstantially indulged in online piracy\u201d by distributing copyrighted research papers without authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has ordered an immediate ban on shadow libraries including Sci-Hub and Libgen in India. The Court directed the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) to block access to these websites within 24 hours. The case against these platforms dates back to 2020, when leading academic publishers Elsevier, Wiley Periodicals and the American Chemical Society filed a suit alleging copyright infringement. They argued that shadow libraries were \u201csubstantially indulged in online piracy\u201d by distributing copyrighted research papers without authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}