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Libgen is Russian?

• ang_cire 2y ago
  I don't think there's any evidence of that, it's just supposition based on them being unable to locate them.
  • ssl-3 2y ago
    Is there a difference betwixt treating supposition as implicit fact and deliberate misinformation?
    • sudoshred 2y ago
      Intent is easier to falsify than impact, generally.
  • reisse 2y ago
    There is a lot of evidence that it was originally made by someone Russian-speaking, starting from the fact that initial LibGen collection was some Russian and English literature taken from a Russian torrent-tracker. However I'm sure there was "no strategic point of view" whatsoever, just a pet project by some kind-hearted people. You can read some other research here - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/26038/11339.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/2603.... (And I also have some very brief "scene" knowledge from circa 2010-2012, which confirms the fact, but you'll have to trust my word for it.)
• ak_111 2y ago
  Actually not sure about LibGen in its current manifestation, but the wikipedia page clearly traces its origin and earlier iterations to Russia
• orbital-decay 2y ago
  More like post-Soviet. Regardless of the country of operation (which included e.g. Ecuador at some point, in which the owner of lib.rus.ec, the predecessor of libgen, moved), all these shadow libraries and knowledge preservation attempts represent consistent political action by the individuals with views formed by samizdat and the Soviet/post-crash reading culture. That includes Sci-Hub, Libgen, and those most never heard about but which were extremely influential, like the SU.BOOKS BBS or lib.ru.