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Custodians.online in Solidarity with Libgen and Sci-hub Dave Holden 2017/09/17 (Sun) 06:52:28 No.1150

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>We have the means and methods to make knowledge accessible to everyone, with no economic barrier to access and at a much lower cost to society. But closed access’s monopoly over academic publishing, its spectacular profits and its central role in the allocation of academic prestige trump the public interest. Commercial publishers effectively impede open access, criminalize us, prosecute our heroes and heroines, and destroy our libraries, again and again. Before Science Hub and Library Genesis there was Library.nu or Gigapedia; before Gigapedia there was textz.com; before textz.com there was little; and before there was little there was nothing. That's what they want: to reduce most of us back to nothing. And they have the full support of the courts and law to do exactly that.

>Share this letter - read it in public - leave it in the printer. Share your writing - digitize a book - upload your files. Don't let our knowledge be crushed. Care for the libraries - care for the metadata - care for the backup. Water the flowers - clean the volcanoes.

Undisclosed 2017/09/19 (Tue) 12:52:55 No.1184

What is it with the government wanting to ban free books?

Masami Eiri 2017/09/19 (Tue) 13:17:03 No.1186

>>1184
>Libgen provides free books
>big publisher thinks it's losing pocket change
>lobbies and complains to government

>>1150
Apparently this happened a little less than 2 years ago. Thanks for the tip that Libgen.io exists, though.

Kaneda 2017/09/19 (Tue) 13:20:05 No.1187

>>1184
It's in the governments and big cooperations best interests to keep the poor uneducated.