Two Russian Nationals Charged with Running Massive E-Book Piracy Website
www.justice.gov
“As alleged, the defendants profited illegally off work they stole, often uploading works within mere hours of publication, and in the process victimized authors, publishers and booksellers,” stated United States Attorney Peace. “This Office is committed to protecting the intellectual property rights that enable creative and artistic expression, and holding individuals accountable for threatening those rights.”
  • MexicanCCPBot
    48·
    3 years ago

    To anyone who wants to embark a large-scale piracy project: remember this has happened since the dawn of digital piracy. Copyright capitalists don’t take things like this lightly. It happened to the creators of TPB, it happened to numerous warez and media piracy groups; this is always an occupational hazard. Stay safe, and don’t trust the west.

  • panic
    36·
    3 years ago

    There will always be a place in my heart for people who genuinely work to share human knowledge (and entertainment). I wouldn’t be the person I am today without piracy projects. These news fill me with sadness, this is a great injustice. Intellectual property is one of the vilest inventions.

    • ComradeSalad
      18·
      3 years ago

      Nationality means nothing to the ruling class. Z Library was a threat to their profits.

      • Muad'DibberMA
        26·
        3 years ago

        Libgen and Z library comrades are building the library of alexandria and the US is doing everything it can to burn it down.

        Moral of the story is do not leave russia or the anti-imperialist countries if you want to stay safe.

  • HaSch
    21·
    3 years ago

    College textbooks cost hundreds to thousands of dollars in the US. Without these websites, US American science and higher education will dissolve into ashes within one generation

    • mauveOkra
      8·
      3 years ago

      LMAO so true. I have professors share obvious libgen or something PDF’s of books published ten years ago and they’ll play dumb and say that it’s public domain, if they’ll say anything.

    • dotmatrix@mastodon.ftp.rip
      3·
      3 years ago

      @HaSch @blueberry Honestly I don’t know how I would’ve been able to do my thesis without sci-hub. Sure there’s the interlibrary loan system, but easily 95% of the papers I read turned out to be non-pertinent to what I was working on. Waiting days or weeks to even figure out whether I was searching for the right things would have seriously fucked up my planning and time management.