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Major academic publishers, including Elsevier and Springer Nature, are trying to unmask the operators of several shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library and Libgen. They're also targeting SLUM, a third-party uptime monitor for these unofficial libraries. A DMCA subpoena, issued by a D.C. federal court, requires Cloudflare to hand over identifying user data for possible legal action.

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[–] tangycitrus@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Publishers, universities, tutors, all of them are on this together. You need to get yourself in debt to study and buy text books that are 'updated' every year to milk as much as possible out of students, and tutors wont let you in class if you don't have the 'updated' text book. Digitally distributed books are so locked in and as recently pointed out in a Louis Rossmann video a lifetime license to use a book can mean just 2 to 5 years. Students are at this point morally obligated to pirate the text books and share them with others, specially those who cannot afford them.