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How much prison time they face? I'm not sad about them. They did it for the money, not because they believed knowledge should be free. They basically stole othe
by mirzap 4y ago
How much prison time they face? I'm not sad about them. They did it for the money, not because they believed knowledge should be free. They basically stole other people work and put their paywall to access stolen books. Total opposite of Libgen or Sci-Hub.
- technoooooost 4y agoyou must be fun at parties
- pkoird 4y agoTheir free model was much more than enough for a regular user to use. I mean 10 books download per day? I'm not sure if I personally would have had to ever exceed that limit.
- arglebargle123 4y agoIt was 10 downloads per day from the website and then a further 10 from the telegram bot too.
- deathgripsss 4y agoI didn't even realise there was a limit. I used to get a couple of books a month. Never close to 10 a day.
- mirzap 4y agoWhich is bad. They made a mirror of Libgen, closed it and charged money for access to it. You were unable to create a mirror from their mirror. Why put a limit at all? Why charge for access, just as same as publishers do? Defeats entire purpose of Libgen and SciHub.
- pkoird 4y agoI understand what you're saying but if you look at the effects alone (and not the means), it seems well justified. Their increased revenue allowed them to provide more and more (than LibGen at least) books to the users free of charge. I do not know the difficulties involved in mirroring Z-Library, but there seems to be someone who did it recently and posted to HN before the site went down.