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.
Lmfao get fucked, US copyright system.
Sometimes there’s a positive story that just makes your day. I bet those lawyers were expensive!
can’t libgen get around this by just saying they’re training an AI model?
And that it was curated by an AI model, so there’s no human to blame!
Man I wonder how they set it up to where they don’t know who runs it
The index is distributed. The files are hosted in multiple places. Historically, some of the storage spots have been compromised web servers. There are copies in ipfs.
I get the feeling it’s maintained by a collective. No idea how they coordinate content acquisition or update indexes. It’s pretty well updated.
God bless that collective. Doing gods work
And how did they prove that anyone was served?
Common Libgen W.
Pirates: “Arr, hehe, yeah, we’ll send this right up the yardarm for ye.”
You served them. Just send the judgement there idiots. Lolololol
Only $30 million? For the amount of content and the convenience, Libgen seems to getting charged pennies on the dollar here. Imagine if the government could make a free online library of that quality for only $30 million, it would be a fantastic investment.
