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Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

Some Libgen links can’t be reached after broad takedown order.

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Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who runs it

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Kierkegaanks regretfully
Kierkegaanks regretfully
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$30M to publishers for running a library? There’s only one thing to say about that: sic semper tyrannis
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boopablesnoot
boopablesnoot
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I understand that this is meant to be a deterrent, and also to make an example out of.

I wonder how they're going to stop mirrors/hosting on the TOR network though.

@pluralistic might just know the answer to this off of the top of his head.

@Cory Doctorow
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person 🧬🦠🧫👩‍💻
person 🧬🦠🧫👩‍💻
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"Google gets informed of every download, and if a user has ever registered with Google, then Google knows exactly who they are, what they've downloaded, and when they downloaded it." #degooglify
#degooglify
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