Sad #piracy news, Z-Library founders arrested in South America: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/two-russian-nationals-charged-running-massive-e-book-piracy-website
Quoting [a post on the orange site](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639015):
*Me and my colleagues will be affected by the end of Z library and co related projects.*
*Here in Brazil and for sure in most second and third world countries, people don't have money to spend in books.*
*You can argue that people can go to the library, but in most cases it's even expensive to take a bus or taxi even a Uber.*
*I'm a law student at an university in brazil. Law books are really expensive. Even though my university have a library, sometimes it doesn't have the books that the professors ask us to read.*
*Since I found z library I could have access to most of books that I needed.*
*I do know that the writers and publishers have costs and they need to make money, but I don't agree with the fact that we have to pay to have knowledge. It's more like if we don't have money, we can't have knowledge.*
@lmonterrosa #ZLibrary has a much larger collection than #libgen. #piracy
@radehi you should lobby your uni into providing free access
you should not violate IP rights
@DieselBoom Possibly you intended to respond to the person I was quoting, but they aren't on the Fediverse. I provided a link.
@radehi This is a good alternative: https://libgen.is/