alt Hacker NewsI almost feel nostalgic for the bittorrent era, when piracy (or unauthorized distribution) was done the old-fashioned way!
Though it's a shame that current copyright law is incompatible with building an effective digital library that isn't crippled with restrictions designed to impose the limitations of paper books (or worse) onto ebooks (while removing benefits such as first-sale doctrine.)
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thaumasiotes • today at 8:45 AM
> I almost feel nostalgic for the bittorrent era, when piracy (or unauthorized distribution) was done the old-fashioned way!
Libgen is a huge improvement. During the period you're referring to, what was available was determined by popular demand, which meant that books weren't available at all.
In the age of LLMs speaking about "piracy" is absurd. LLM users are reading the same books, just algorithmically post-processed.