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Was her identity well-known before the Elsevier court case, where she was named?

I thought the publicity for her efforts was made after this, in English language media anyway. Though perhaps I am misremembering the order of events.

[DominikPeters]

According to pushshift, her name first appears in a reddit comment in December 2014: https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/2m2m1p/libgen_needs... The Sci-Hub wikipedia article first appeared in October 2015, already mentioning her name. The Elsevier complaint in NY is from June 2015: https://torrentfreak.com/images/elsevier-complaint.pdf