The real issue is modern day purchasing is not ownership. It's not even leasing. It's you pay the full list price for a PDF or music file that can disappear anytime from your library if the corpo-rats decide it shouldn't be available to you anymore.
If purchasing isn't ownership, then piracy shouldn't be theft.
So 'pirating' stuff for personal use is bad, but if it's for corp use and benefits than it's good.
And next week, "Meta argues new Law AI tool trained on books from Pirate Library is fair use."
but how was he found out? did telegram cooperate with korean law enforcement?
In South Korea, educational inequality due to inability to afford educational materials has been an issue for many years.
The argument against piracy is that people have the right to be compensated for their work. Consider this argument in the context of medical services. The extreme pirate position is equivalent to expecting doctors to provide cosmetic surgery for free. The extreme industry position is equivalent to saying doctors should let patients die on the sidewalk if they can't pay.
I'm torn on the issue of sharing files, because I've watched its rise over the past 25 years and seen how tremendously it has improved educational opportunities for poorer peoples.
Access to education and information should be free - or at the very least a lot less broken than it is today.
No doubt many LLMs have trained on the same content, with no complaints.
I think that especially for educational, engineering, and scientific research, these kinds of “libraries” cross over firmly into the public good.
Making money on textbooks by selling them to students at premium prices is despicable and is a poverty of mind for the future. Course tuition should include necessary book access. We gain so much more as a civilisation by sharing within academia that there needs to be a change in the way that the publishing industry treats these kinds of “violations “.
It seems like the passing of linger should get more notice.
Obviously book authors need to be paid, but those at the bottom of the ladder seeking to climb it through education can't afford the books.
Perhaps some kind of program run by the publishers could give free books to these people, to reduce the motivation for piracy of the books? Those that can afford it would still pay, of course.
That said, the current system is broken, so while this particular site is gone, z-library and anna's archive live on and won't be getting taken down any time zoon.
> Copyright Crime Special Unit
It's amazing that people have somehow been convinced that it's sane not only to throw others in prison for copying files but also to have special police for it.
>The Ministry of Culture and Sport says others involved will be tracked down and given lessons in copyright law.
This is way too soft of a punishment. If people can get away with attending a lesson there will not be enough risk in the risk reward analysis people do before violating people's copyrights.
I recall attending a talk by Richard Stallman where he critiqued the use of the word "piracy" for file sharing. "Pirates" attack and destroy ships, kill innocents, and generally rape and plunder. How does that word fit what's basically sharing and trying to help your neighbor?