Pirate library must pay publishers $30M, but no one knows who …
Sep 26, 2024 · On Thursday, some links to the notorious shadow library Library Genesis (Libgen) couldn't be reached after a US district court judge, Colleen McMahon, ordered what TorrentFreak called "one of...
Popular Shadow Library 'LibGen' Breaks Down Amidst Legal …
Aug 14, 2024 · Popular shadow library LibGen appears to be struggling with technical problems. Regular book downloads stopped working last weekend and remain unavailable. The reason for the issues are unknown...
Textbook publishers sue 'shadow library' Library Genesis over …
Sep 14, 2023 · A group of major textbook publishers on Thursday sued file-sharing service Library Genesis in Manhattan federal court for what they described as copyright infringement on a "staggering" scale.
Publishers seeking to paralyze pirate library LibGen
Mar 5, 2024 · In a copyright infringement lawsuit, several large textbook publishers want Library Genesis (LibGen), a major illegal web library, to be fined $30 million in piracy damages and closed down. Collecting the money might be complicated.
Meta Secretly Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database, Newly ...
2 days ago · Against the company’s wishes, a court unredacted information alleging that Meta used Library Genesis (LibGen), a notorious so-called shadow library of pirated books that originated in Russia, to ...
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Sep 22, 2023 · Major science and education publishers are trying to get “notorious” online database Library Genesis (LibGen, to its friends) taken offline and claw back some of the cash they allege its owners made from copyright infringement.
“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook …
Sep 15, 2023 · Yesterday, some of the biggest textbook publishers sued Library Genesis, an illegal shadow library that publishers are accusing of "extensive violations of federal copyright law." Publishers...
Meta used piracy site to train AI models, court documents allege
2 days ago · The illegal library is currently battling a copyright infringement lawsuit, which includes several large textbook publishers who want to see LibGen taken down and fined $30 million. In another filing found by The Register, the accusers argue that Meta illegally removed copyright management information (CMI) to train its Llama models.
Domain Seizures and German ISP Blockade Add to Libgen’s Troubles
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Why the fate of LibGen, Internet Archive matters ... - The Federal News
Sep 9, 2024 · Coming close on the heels of the LibGen episode, on September 4, the Internet Archive (IA), a digital library, suffered a major legal defeat after the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling that IA’s practice of scanning and lending copyrighted books without publishers’ permission did not constitute “fair ...
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