“None of them have ever been accessed, and of the ones that I checked, none even worked.”
James Stanley got three notices covering 7,350 URLs on his Hardbin gateway, filed in the names of Wolters Kluwer, Elsevier’s Knovel and IEEE. He checked his nginx logs and found not one hit. Another operator is now blocking 12,367 files he never hosted. The publishers know volunteers can’t remove anything from IPFS. The point is to make running a gateway miserable, and Hardbin is already gone.