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Sci-Hub.se, a site that offers a free gateway to paywalled academic research, has lost control over one of its main domain names.
Shadow libraries have gradually become key players of scientific knowledge dissemination, despite their illegality in most countries of the world. Many publishers and scientist-editors decry such libraries for their copyright infringement and loss of publication usage information, while some scho...
When authorities shut down an online library of pirated material, book lovers grappled with the consequences of not paying for art and the price of higher education.
Textbook piracy platform Z-Library sunk by popular TikTok hashtag.
Medill freshman Josefina Espino began using Z-Library to download textbooks for free as soon as she got to campus. “I was complaining about paying $300 for my books,” Espino said. “Then somebody told me, ‘Girl, don’t pay for your books. Nobody here actually pays for them.’” But on Nov. 4, the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Textbooks can be prohibitively expensive.
Several domains related to popular ebook repository Z-Library became inaccessible a few hours ago. DNS records suggest action by the US government.
French ISPs will block more than 200 domains related to Z-Library following legal action by the National Publishing Union.
Where there's demand for books, the internet will supply them.
Sci-Hub has become foundational for scientific research. What if we didn’t need it at all?