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The court order prohibits the site from storing, distributing, or encouraging use of WorldCat data, and requires deletion of all related content including torrents. This comes amid mysterious domain suspensions of the site's .org and .se domains, with OCLC expected to use the injunction to pressure hosting providers, domain registrars, and other intermediaries to take action against the platform. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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