Dutch Court Orders ISP to Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen'

[bruce343434]

“These types of illegal shadow libraries are very harmful. The only ones who benefit are the anonymous owners of these illegal services. Authors and publishers see no return on their efforts and investments,” BREIN comments.

1. Researchers who need access to the papers do benefit.

2. The researchers who wrote the papers don't see a penny anyway

[abeppu]

Do the service owners/providers even have meaningful benefit? Anna's archive asks for "volunteers" to run mirrors. I have to imagine that most users do not pay for content that they download.

[kelseyfrog]

All I see is a middle man, who I think the world would be better off without, telling people that they are harmed because a good which only exists as a legal fabrication is being replicated without them being able to tell people what to do.

[tmaly]

Do these shadow libraries comply with DMCA take down notices?

[jdawg777]

I had heard of LibGen and Z-library, but not Anna's Archive. Thanks for the recommendation Dutch Court!

[goatmeal]

all these services are going to have to rely more on tor, i2p, and alternative DNS