Washington district court Judge Marsha J. Pechman granted a temporary restraining order against the ebook piracy site KISS Library, as requested in the suit by Authors Guild members, Amazon Publishing, and PRH. The order freezes the assets and websites. Though the enterprise is based in Ukraine, the order applies to “any funds with their payment processors” attorney John Goldmark told PL. Their main payment processor, FastSpring, is based in California, and some of the domain registrars are also US based, he said. As of at least yesterday, all the domains had already been taken down, though KISS could migrate its […]
