In early August, Indian users who accessed a website that once let them download books and scholarly journals for free found themselves locked out of the site. The landing page to Z-Library refused to ...

The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...

A new project has just launched with the goal of preserving all human knowledge. The problem? It’s illegal. The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of ...

A group of leading textbook publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, have sued Library Genesis over staggering copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims ...

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For many students around the world, the illicit book-sharing website Library Genesis has been a lifeline of free primary texts and scientific knowledge. It is such a widely accepted resource for free ...

Sept 14 (Reuters) - A group of major textbook publishers on Thursday sued file-sharing service Library Genesis in Manhattan federal court for what they described as copyright infringement on a ...