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Well, thank you authors guild, for pointing me to the great library. 'Tis a shame you are people who would see the great library of alexandria burn in the sake
by arpa 7y ago
Well, thank you authors guild, for pointing me to the great library. 'Tis a shame you are people who would see the great library of alexandria burn in the sake of profit.
- voiper1 7y agoaka Streisand effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect - The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet.
- catalogia 7y agoTo show my gratitude to the author's guild, I'd like to point out that Library Genesis exists and is pretty great. Unlike the Internet Archive, they don't bother paying lip service to cretinous publishing industry lawyers; 'lending' is fully unrestricted year round. Up-to-date URLs to mirrors can be found on their wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
- coldpie 7y agoAlso a good reminder to donate to the Internet Archive if you can. They do amazing work and it is not cheap: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1204428347444547584 https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1204428347444547584