Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

Post by cyberpunk » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 8:59 PM UTC

squigz wrote: post #10

Access to education and information should be free - or at the very least a lot less broken than it is today. https://annas-archive.org/torrents

Post by wrp » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 9:07 PM UTC

tux3 wrote: post #6

wrp wrote: post #5

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…

It is important to note that authors are not compensated when you buy access to an academic article in a journal. In fact, since the authors both do the work of creating the content and peer-reviewing submissions, they must also pay the journal in exchange for doing this work. Think of it like the patient paying the hospital, the doctor paying the hospital, and in exchange the doctor can do their work at a prestigiou…

Post by gosub100 » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 9:17 PM UTC

amarcheschi wrote: post #3

ronsor wrote: post #2

> 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.

Unless big tech does it I guess

Post by HPsquared » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 9:34 PM UTC

Mikhail_Edoshin wrote: post #9

wrp wrote: post #5

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…

The problem with copyright is that gives the owner too many other rights that can be summed up as a right to also prevent distribution. This creates an imbalance. The owner should only be given the right to be compensated; but other rights should be stripped. For example, why not to require the right to publish a book to always be a public offer that any publisher can join on the same terms?

Post by 0cf8612b2e1e » Sat, Aug 16, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

cyberpunk wrote: post #11

squigz wrote: post #10

Access to education and information should be free - or at the very least a lot less broken than it is today. https://annas-archive.org/torrents

I really would love to help out, but I don't have 650TB of storage laying around :( The logistics of this archive are quite crazy; most 2-4U JBODs I worked with hold like 24 or 45 SFF SAS disks. Standard size (unless things have changed) for 10k sff sas disks seems to be about 1.2TB, so you'd need 544 of these to build a raidz big enough. So we're talking 12 4U jbods, well over a full rack. I guess I can just hope so…