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101@feddit.org to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish ·
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U.S. Court Orders LibGen to Pay $30m to Publishers, Issues Broad Injunction.

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U.S. Court Orders LibGen to Pay $30m to Publishers, Issues Broad Injunction.

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A New York federal court has ordered the operators of shadow library LibGen to pay $30 million in damages and issued a broad injunction.

Here is your reminder to always use really free books sources ( Cretive Commons or Public domain) and to donate to them.

Maybe one day, we will be more open about knowledge sharing.

Sources to read free books:

  • Unglue.it.
  • Wikibooks.
  • The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.
  • Authorama.
  • Europeana.
  • Wikisource.
  • IntechOpen.
  • Project Gutenberg.
  • DOAB search engine.
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  • style99@lemm.ee
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    Isn’t this kinda like old man yells at cloud?

    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Yep exactly. Or when Putin orders and arrest of a critic…who is in an entirely different country

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        Eh, that’s a bit different. The Russian state does carry out assassinations of critics.

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    Is Libgen even an entity? What constitutes “Libgen”? I think there might be a way to make this claim invalid by a round-about shrug: “what’s libgen”?

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    isnt this a bit like the annas archive situation? they cant find the owner?

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    FTA: "While this is a win on paper, it’s unlikely that the publishers will get paid by the LibGen operators, who remain anonymous. "

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