The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to put up a defense, the publishers’ main goal appears to be to obtain an injunction that can apply further pressure on domain registrars and registries.

  • StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world
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    Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they’re going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren’t even worth money anymore. They’re out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.

    This is just bullshit

    I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna’s

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      If you’re concerned about the site shutting down, seed some of their torrents from their site so that it’s easier to re-launch it if it happens