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I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site. I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
by Karunamon 11y ago
I've got to point out that libgen is effectively a book piracy site.
I don't personally have a problem with this, but others may want to keep that in mind.
- delish 11y agoI'll play devil's advocate: do you? In America (the only country I'm familiar with), people are sued by the RIAA or MPAA for copyright infringement. I've never seen a pattern of lawsuits for pirating books[0]. So there's very little risk of getting caught. If someone has a moral problem with my piracy, I'd reply that I'm a paying member of my local library and I purchase far more books than the average person. If someone has a moral problem with them personally pirating, I'd suggest trying it out. You'll be so happy that you'll retroactively justify your behavior. Like me! [0] Exceptional cases like Aaron Swartz (who downloaded 1 million+ Jstor articles) do not a pattern make.
- Karunamon 11y agoUm.. the second line says "I don't have a problem with this.." :) I'm personally of the belief that locking up knowledge behind paywalls is a terribly backwards thing to do, but that's modern capitalism for you. I just wanted to call it out because some people are a lot more bothered by copyright infringement than others.
- wolfgke 11y agoAnybody who have a problem with this should better read Aaron Swartz' Guerilla Open Access Manifesto: > https://archive.org/details/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto > https://archive.org/stream/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008_djvu.txt > https://archive.org/download/GuerillaOpenAccessManifesto/Goamjuly2008.pdf