[tpeo]

At one point one has to ask oneself: what's even the point intaking down a website? I was the work of someone else and not of chance, as were the other cases in which libgen/scihub were inacessible. But really, at this point it probably takes more effort to take down a website to put it up on another domain. It probably doesn't take more than a couple of hours, at the worst case, while take downs -- if they have any bureaucratic existence -- must have been parked at someone's office for longer than that. Why these people still pretend they control anything on the internet?

[evgen]

The simple answer is that because whack-a-mole works to a limited extent, and when you run out of options it is worth the effort. Yes, there are alternate paths for users to take, but by eliminating the easiest or most well-known addresses you raise the bar for some users and add friction into the process. Putting up a new site takes a few hours, but getting the word out and dealing with the inevitable rise of malware/adware/ppc-stuffed bottom-feeding clones that will try to use this event to harvest victims will end up creating fear, uncertainty, and doubt among casual users. Sometimes this is good enough for the powers that be.