These seizures are some of the only legal actions which are just emblematic of pure corruption. The government serving the interests of middlemen whose primary impact on science is making it less accessible and charging rents on it. It’s a hellish parody of copyright law.
If I worked for Elsevier I’d feel worse about what I did for a living than if I worked for Marlboro.
https://torrentfreak.com/home-confined-z-library-defendants-...
Here's something I'd pay for (probably with some sort of sketchy crypto, sadly): send me a huge-ass hard drive (or array of drives) with a complete mirror of Z-Library, Library Genesis, and sci-hub on it.
Containment of "the human corpus" (all significant written works since antiquity) is a lost cause for the authorities. Stunts like this Australian thing are symbolic rituals by the dying publishing industry against a downhill battle.
For a brief window you'll have Fahrenheit 451 style police trying to enforce physical warrants and seizure of "illegal reading materials", but proliferation, diminishing size, sheer utility and cost of enforcement will soon make the whole misadventure water under the bridge.
Yeah, we will look back at early 21st century as a sorry bloody episode to be embarrassed by.
[0] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/2048-informatio...
The system is working as designed. Once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It’s everywhere.
An you Dad, how did you spend your day in service of our cause?
After a pause, which might be a hint of an amount of independent thinking, but not really.
The father responds: I protected America by preventing poor people from reading enough books!
What a world we live in. Can't wait to see what's next.
Careful now. Literacy is a noble goal, but piracy is still a crime. Once you start taking down sites for things that aren't crimes, everything's fair game.
Considering current events in Israel and the absurd PR war on social media, it doesn't take much for even a Jew to earn the anti-Semitic achievement right now.
