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It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy. I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thin
by yosito 6y ago
It's unfortunate that preserving access to scientific knowledge is being associated with piracy.
I get the connection, but Libgen is an entirely different thing than torrenting copyrighted media for entertainment.
- d110af5ccf 6y agoUhh, you realize Libgen has a fiction section (among other things), right?
- swiley 6y agoIME when you move away from Math/Engineering libgen tends to have a much thinner selection (although I'll admit that I've always gone to standardebooks for fiction.)
- trompetenaccoun 6y agoThe headline makes it sound like it's about sci hub, maybe that that's why people are confused.
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoAn ebook reader plus the fiction section on LibGen (and its predecessor ebook-sharing websites) has allowed me to avoid spending money on novels for nearly a decade now. Yes, often the novels I was reading were part of the modern canon (e.g. works by Nobel laureates) and ought to be freely available to all – I think everyone has a right to a basic cultural education, and copyright shouldn’t be enforced on things considered canonical. But other times, the novels I was reading were pretty inane genre fiction with little claim to cultural value, so yes, it was piracy for the sake of entertainment. Instead of trying to deny that LibGen is used for that, I think we might celebrate it.