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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.
Knowledge should be free
Sure. But the folks who put the knowledge in a digestible format should be rewarded for their efforts.
Yep. Not the folks who create textbooks they force their students to buy for ludicrous prices so they can afford their fancy boat.
And you can have your freedom, for only the low low cost of 1200 dollars per freedom, per year.