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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library (LibGen) sued by textbook publishers (arstechnica.com)
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[–] ribboo@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Libgen is such an amazing resource

[–] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Good luck suing a resource that's hosted in Russia. Most they can do is block access through ISPs, which won't stop people who know about the website already since they're tech savvy.

[–] Player2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Libgen is great, got a book from there just a few days ago