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Look, I know what copyright law says and I know that LibGen is probably and actually illegal and that authors are entitled to payment and all that stuff. Heck
by nlh 3y ago
Look, I know what copyright law says and I know that LibGen is probably and actually illegal and that authors are entitled to payment and all that stuff. Heck I come from a family of authors so I get it.
But man, can you imagine being the guy quoted in that article calling an open library - whose only goal is to spread knowledge - a "thieves' den" of illegal books"? Talk about being on the wrong side of enlightenment.
- goku12 3y agoI'm pretty sure authors would get a better deal if they cut off these middlemen. I always buy directly from the author if I can. Not only is it cheaper when that option is available, but the authors often take a pro-reader stance - like no DRM. There are a few small scale publishers like leanpub that do something similar. The exploitative practices in the publishing can stop if both authors and readers take a proactive stance in it.
- martin8412 3y agoA lot of the authors get close to nothing. I had a professor who wrote the text book used for the course. He said that he didn't care if people pirated it, because he got something like $1.5 per sale. We could just buy him a beer if we wanted.
- flir 3y agoWas thinking the same thing. If you ever start to doubt who's on the right side of this and who... isn't, meditate on the phrase "illegal library". For me, it's right up there with "illegal hospital".