Earlier this week the Authors Guild listed the site as a growing piracy problem. Many people promote the free service on social media, without any enforcement action getting in the way.
“So far there have not been any significant enforcement actions against Z-Library of which we are aware,” the Authors Guild wrote. That statement expired quickly.
The 1791 excise law set a varying six to 18-cent per gallon tax rate, with smaller distillers often paying more than twice per gallon what larger producers paid.
same reason why all these giant companies love diversity quotas. they can afford to burn 30% of labor on do-negative-work employees. startups which might upend them cannot.
If the DOJ and "Postal Inspection Service" - defenders of Democracy through the great Election Fortification of 2020 - can take Z-Library's domain, they can take this one too.
I hope one day we see a time where it's widely understood that the only way to own an idea as a form of private property is to never share it at all. The concept of "intellectual property" has become a huge disaster.
The U.S. copyright system is a complete disaster. It was originally seven years with a seven year renewal. But it’s been steadily expanded to the current life of the author plus 70 years. There’s no way that life + 70 meets the constitutional definition of “for a limited time”. You can thank the Europeans for the first big expansion in the early 1970s and then Disney for the current version (fuck Disney with a cactus btw).
Odysee / LBRY is pretty good in this respect, although it needs a lot more people hosting LBRY content. Right now Odysee is a huge node and Feds could easily shut down most of the content just by shutting down their servers.
The issue I'd have with that is mostly the quality of the book. I've paid 50 for a good book because it's sold as a premium book/limited edition, even for manga I've done that(the deluxe Berserk volumes are well worth the price, super high quality)...a spiral bound book is maybe worth 10 imho. This is just some fartsniffing professor making a quick buck.
They weren´t just pirating overpriced books, they were pirating everything, including cheap books, and for a profit, pirate websites make a ton of money with advertising, but I totally understand if people on low income pirate things, the problem root however is that nobody should be low waged, it is not the writers fault.
Buying second hand books, just like borrowing them from the library, it is perfectly legal as you know. Nobody complaints about that, writers already got paid the first time.
Eliminating the low-waged is impossible in any form of capitalist society. Just as unemployment is. Money needs to circle from the high and low and back, and the problem is that it's not doing that enough. The needs and demands aren't free enough either, though I'm not one arguing for an entirely free market. Just more free than now.
We used to have a fair solution for this that allowed authors to have a monopoly for a decent amount of time in the US Constitution. Then Congress decided to steal from the people (Public Domain) and give to their corporate sponsors.
Not sure why this was downvoted. The copyright privilege granted to the government to spur the creation of arts has unquestionably been warped over the years by corporate IP attorneys. You can support copyrights, patents, and trademarks while understanding that.
Honestly the whole idea of Intellectual Property is a sham that demeans the value of Real Property and possessions, but that's a different discussion.
Textbooks aside, the people that can live as full time writers are either good enough that people want physical copies or they are already propped up by a publisher who keeps them around for diversity and no one is buying their stuff anyway.
The difference between a book whose target audience is students vs the general public is often a factor of 10 or more.
Back when printing required physically making plates and limited print runs meant recouping high fixed costs is over. The old justifications no longer apply, but the market hasn't corrected because it is controlled by a cartel.
NOOOOO you can't share textbooks!
And you certainly can't share scholarly articles, the majority of which contain publicly funded research.
You wouldn't steal a supersonic airplane, why would you steal a textebook?
The whole flaw of that add campaign was that, were it feasibly possible, many people would not hesitate to download a car.
And with the advent of 3D printing... people actually have...
https://www.motor1.com/news/375313/dad-3d-prints-lambo-aventador/
"You would not print a car, would you?"
relevent
The original said "steal" but the well known parody said "download"
But yes, I would totally download a car. The minute we have replicators, everyone would.
The US government is at the command of a guild.
Always has been
Remember, Walmart is one of the biggest supporters of raising the minimum wage.
same reason why all these giant companies love diversity quotas. they can afford to burn 30% of labor on do-negative-work employees. startups which might upend them cannot.
If the DOJ and "Postal Inspection Service" - defenders of Democracy through the great Election Fortification of 2020 - can take Z-Library's domain, they can take this one too.
I wonder how long it is before some Ukrainophile destroys Sci-Hub because it's Russian
Burning the modern Libraries of Alexandria saves the {censors} the burden of sifting through our Akashic Records
They've been trying to shut down Sci-Hub since at least 2015
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-seize-z-library-domain-names-221104/
Torrentfreak became a lot less reliable for discussion when they stopped allowing comments
Weird that.
True. It's still an article you can read, and not just a pic, though.
what was the issue with the comments?
https://torrentfreak.com/were-turning-off-the-comments/
No clue. They gave some kinda corporate speak about it. All it did was stop proper discussion.
But, you already HAVE paid for it...
He meant pay for twice.
I hope one day we see a time where it's widely understood that the only way to own an idea as a form of private property is to never share it at all. The concept of "intellectual property" has become a huge disaster.
The U.S. copyright system is a complete disaster. It was originally seven years with a seven year renewal. But it’s been steadily expanded to the current life of the author plus 70 years. There’s no way that life + 70 meets the constitutional definition of “for a limited time”. You can thank the Europeans for the first big expansion in the early 1970s and then Disney for the current version (fuck Disney with a cactus btw).
Blockchain and alternate DNS servers FTW.
People spout this decentralized stuff constantly but I have yet to see anything approaching a functional internet coming out of it all.
Odysee / LBRY is pretty good in this respect, although it needs a lot more people hosting LBRY content. Right now Odysee is a huge node and Feds could easily shut down most of the content just by shutting down their servers.
http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion
Here's your tor link. Get fucked postal service and doj.
Why would anybody work full time as a writer if their books are going to pirated and be given away for free afterwards?
And I thought my professor was a scammer for writing the text book but at least it was a proper hard bound book.
Spiral bound for 50 buckos? That's an outright scam, no wonder people want to download books from pages like this.
50 bucks is nothing. I recently payed $270 dollars for a Anatomy and Physiology textbook.
The issue I'd have with that is mostly the quality of the book. I've paid 50 for a good book because it's sold as a premium book/limited edition, even for manga I've done that(the deluxe Berserk volumes are well worth the price, super high quality)...a spiral bound book is maybe worth 10 imho. This is just some fartsniffing professor making a quick buck.
At least that's appropriate for the subject.
Ours was 50% content cut from other books.
They can sink lower.
They weren´t just pirating overpriced books, they were pirating everything, including cheap books, and for a profit, pirate websites make a ton of money with advertising, but I totally understand if people on low income pirate things, the problem root however is that nobody should be low waged, it is not the writers fault.
Buying second hand books, just like borrowing them from the library, it is perfectly legal as you know. Nobody complaints about that, writers already got paid the first time.
Eliminating the low-waged is impossible in any form of capitalist society. Just as unemployment is. Money needs to circle from the high and low and back, and the problem is that it's not doing that enough. The needs and demands aren't free enough either, though I'm not one arguing for an entirely free market. Just more free than now.
We used to have a fair solution for this that allowed authors to have a monopoly for a decent amount of time in the US Constitution. Then Congress decided to steal from the people (Public Domain) and give to their corporate sponsors.
Not sure why this was downvoted. The copyright privilege granted to the government to spur the creation of arts has unquestionably been warped over the years by corporate IP attorneys. You can support copyrights, patents, and trademarks while understanding that.
Honestly the whole idea of Intellectual Property is a sham that demeans the value of Real Property and possessions, but that's a different discussion.
Textbooks aside, the people that can live as full time writers are either good enough that people want physical copies or they are already propped up by a publisher who keeps them around for diversity and no one is buying their stuff anyway.
Most regular books are much more reasonably priced than most textbooks, as well.
The difference between a book whose target audience is students vs the general public is often a factor of 10 or more.
Back when printing required physically making plates and limited print runs meant recouping high fixed costs is over. The old justifications no longer apply, but the market hasn't corrected because it is controlled by a cartel.