I am no branding expert, but calling your opponents an "illegal shadow library" makes you sound like a villain, and elevates your opponents to protagonists, in an anime series like Read or Die.
It always makes me wonder, the lawyers in the US yelling about "massively illegal" conduct by Libgen. If Libgen was in the US, then yes,of course. But based in Russia...do they really expect US law to obtain there?
Libgen is a hero to students in the global south, a repository of important stuff, and the main place book pirates upload their work. It's a terrible itch the capitalists just can't scratch.
For sure. Textbooks being that expensive is a paywall for knowledge and only means the rich have access to it without having to sacrifice quality of life.
Didn't even know until I read the comments that textbooks even come with one-time-passwords now for online only homework.
@demerara@rewarp@bookstodon libgen and scihub are out here fulfilling the Internets original goal of becoming an open library of all human knowledge to enable a scientific and educational renaissance.
And those profiting from perpetuating the under-education and ignorance of the American people are having none of it.