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The people downvoting my question are very confused! It was a question; I'm not expressing an anti-scihub or anti-libgen viewpoint. It's absolutely unarguable t
by Myrmornis 7y ago
The people downvoting my question are very confused! It was a question; I'm not expressing an anti-scihub or anti-libgen viewpoint. It's absolutely unarguable the scale of the copyright violation is staggering! Absolutely every commercial technical book is free on libgen. I didn't say that was a bad thing. Never before in the history of humanity has such an incredible collection of technical books and journals been free to so many humans on the planet, each one just a few clicks, less than a minute away.
- CamperBob2 7y agoHard to say. Voting behavior on here can be downright paradoxical at times. Downvoting is also easy to do accidentally due to the UI. The sentiment behind the downvotes might be something like, "The first rule of libgen is you don't talk about libgen." If I ran HN, I'd require a brief comment to be associated with each downvote, but then I'd do a lot of stuff differently.