I’ve been perusing the wiki looking for some sources, and I think I may even want to contribute to it in a month or so. But I noticed a lot of the book references include libgen links. While I think it’s a great convenience, couldn’t having it be so prominent eventually get the project in legal trouble?
Oh definitely I agree that copyright has no value for society. I’m pretty sure even most writers cited would be okay with us sharing it and the publishers would be the only ones complaining. My worry is just that the website might get hit with some form of legal action if there are explicit links there. I guess it depends mostly on just where the server is hosted, since obviously libgen and piratebay don’t get taken down themselves that often. MIA had some issues in the past with some copyrighted Marx letters getting taken down (how does that even happen?), so I was wary of something like that happening here too.