Knowledge wants to be free. One day our institutions will stop fighting it.
this post was submitted on 09 Jul 2024
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We had a student run server for piracy at my University to get copied textbooks from, but even then we had to sometimes look elsewhere. I often couldn't afford books and not all professors allowed the cheaper used previous editions.
Science textbooks were the worst with their stupid fucking online code bullshit so we could do homework. They even made it where you could buy just the code, which was something like $70. Still better than 300+, but JFC. Having to spend over $1000 for books that you are only going to use for 10 weeks was nuts.
The last saving grace we had is all textbooks were required to have at least one copy in the library that could not be checked out/removed. You could photocopy the homework pages that way. If your classmates were nice, they would let you borrow theirs to copy any pages too. You could also buy your textbook, copy what you needed, and return it within the return window.
And usually, there was an awesome professor that would "accidentally" make a free e-version of the textbook available to the class. God I appreciated the hell outta them.
I had professors that instead of a text book had you buy a “reader” from a copy shop. It was just a big binder of photocopied pages from text books, academic journals and various published papers. I still hold on to a few of them as they were kinda like mix tapes of various ideas and info, way more interesting than a text book.
The local copy shops were bigger centers of piracy than Napster at the time.
Their detention occurred without compliance with legal norms and with numerous procedural violations, and the FBI request contained knowingly false data on the existence of a court sanction for arrest
Still the same old tactic
They will be extradited to face financial capital face-to-face, in the "Land of the free"
For a second I thought this was about zlib.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But according to a translated article from a local publication called La Voz, the pair suddenly disappeared after submitting a request "to be considered political refugees" in order to "avoid being sent to the US."
Ars was not immediately able to reach the DOJ or the Patronato del Liberado—the agency in Argentina that confirmed to La Voz that the couple had escaped—to verify the report.
Officials told La Voz that the Patronato del Liberado was charged with monitoring the Z-Library admins' house arrest and "were surprised to find that there was no trace of them" during a routine check-in last May.
In a Change.org petition, the Z-Library team wrote that both were "project participants who ensure the operation of the platform" and were "not involved in uploading files" the US considered copyright-infringing, calling their detention "unfair and unacceptable."
It currently has 146,000 out of 150,000 signatures sought, with Z-Library fans defending the platform as providing critical access for people without financial means to knowledge and diverse educational resources.
"We call for the restoration of Z-Library and for a fair solution that takes into account both the rights of authors and the need for people to have free access to educational resources," the petition said.
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…partly arguing that extradition was inappropriate because the US had never specified "which copyrighted works had allegedly been infringed."
