On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn’t be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called “one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions” ever issued by a US court.

In her order, McMahon sided with textbook publishers who accused Libgen of willful copyright infringement after Libgen completely ignored their complaint.

To compensate rightsholders, McMahon ordered Libgen to pay $30 million, but because nobody knows who runs the shadow library, it seems unlikely that publishers will be paid any time soon, if ever.

  • TheTechnician27
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    1733 months ago

    Lmfao get fucked, US copyright system.

      • @Soggy
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        303 months ago

        And while we’re at it, get fucked Pearson and other scummy textbook publishers!

      • @werefreeatlast
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        23 months ago

        Yes. I am Look Skee Wacker, and I ride the Digital Millennium Copyright Act Falcon. Sure it’s kinda small and feathery but chewy and I love to ride it to new adventures! 😉

        Is the dead falcon smell normal for falcons? Why doesn’t it fly when we jump on it… repeatedly? Is all the red stuff supposed to be inside of it? How do we put it all inside? It’s at lot. Well, it’s not a lot, it’s a falcon. I’m just referring to all the guts outside surrounding it.