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Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by lostlogin »

aussieguy1234 wrote: post #39

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-libra…

> Obviously book authors need to be paid

Do they? When the required reading is this years's version of the course professor's book, you are drowning in the BS.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by h2zizzle »

lostlogin wrote: post #40
kelnos wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same thought. Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have.

> Those people could be put to so much better use, solving real problems that everyday people have. You can apply that logic to large swathe of well paid jobs.

This is why an economic crash is not necessarily a bad thing in the long run. It shatters calcified assumptions about what labor is valuable and presents an opportunity to redefine them. We keep putting the next one off, and the people working jobs that "should" have gone away keep moving forward in their careers, gaining seniority and higher salaries doing varyingly terrible and unnecessary work.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by Symbiote »

squigz wrote: post #18
cyberpunk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well I don't think you have to dedicate 650TB or nothing :P A full rack or more sounds like a lot, but I don't know much about hardware, so I'll take your word for it.

At work I have about 1PB per full rack, and that's with plain HP/Dell servers with 12 3.5" hard disks in each.

Maximising storage isn't the purpose of this setup, much denser configurations are possible as others have commented.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by JoeDohn »

edoceo wrote: post #38
JoeDohn wrote: post #37

So 'pirating' stuff for personal use is bad, but if it's for corp use and benefits than it's good.

In USA? Correct (unfortunately)

I guess US, but not only. I am eluding to the whole AI thing, instead of using it as a platform to improve human condition and not only profit financially, we do have 'Step mom' and 'Russian girl' bots built on top of 'pirated' content.

We are fucked.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by neya »

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.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by K0balt »

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 “.

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by zugi »

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?

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by autoexec »

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.

They've been getting away with it for ages. The RIAA even hired a bunch of ex-cops to act as goons, impersonate the FBI, and go on raids

https://web.archive.org/web/20040209170528/http://www.laweek...

I swear I've seen photos of them in their RIAA jackets too, but I can't seem to find any at the moment

Re: Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members

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Post by [deleted] »

slg wrote: post #34
gosub100 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's not copyright infringement! I'm just using it to train my neural networks with the information!"

This quote is perfectly constructed to underline the hypocrisy considering this case is about pirating educational material. If pirating information is allowed when that neural network you are training is some LLM, why shouldn't it be allowed when that neural network is a human brain?

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