According to an article posted in the British The Sunday Times, investigators believed that library.nu was operated by Irish nationals, possibly from Galway, through a server in Kyiv.

[2] This website was targeted by coordinated legal action from 17 publishers who obtained an injunction from a Munich court.

In contrast, a representative of a private intellectual property agency hired by the book publishers stated that the "owners and directors of iFile.it" were the persons whose names appeared on the receipts of PayPal donations to Library.nu.

[5] According to TorrentFreak, "the legal team of the publishers estimated the revenue based on page impressions as well as estimated income from premium accounts, but this figure is laughable according to the iFile.it owner, which makes sense considering the site’s modest size."

The iFile.it owner also told TorrentFreak that "they can barely cover the server costs with the revenue they make.