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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by GorgeRonde on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @03:36AM (#19551865)
Bought a book on GooglePlay once. Wanted to download it as an ePub. ePub wasn't available due to a technical error on Google's side (apparently affecting all epubs). Had to use Adobe Digital Editions to "download" it only to figure out the download wasn't available. + DRMs (i.e. can't read the ebook on a smartphone).

Went to libgen instead, will never buy a book on GooglePlay again.

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by 0xfaded on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:57AM (#19552767)
I begrudgingly bought an ebook from google once. I knew there was DRM, but the store page said I could read it in my browser.

google-chrome != browser

grrrrr

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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by JustSomeNobody on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @09:50AM (#19554020)
Same. Except I didn't know about Libgen so I spun up a windows vm and installed some dubious software to extract the epub.
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by Dylan16807 on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:07AM (#19552276)
How long did the ePub error last?
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by GorgeRonde on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @05:36AM (#19552406)
Seems like it is gone now (you still have to juggle with DRMs though). However when it happened I searched for the error code and found some posts on Google forums. They were 6 months to 1 year old, with no provided solution.
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by harshitaneja on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:30AM (#19552634)
When did this happen? Maybe it affected limited number of users. I use google play books all the time and this was never an issue for me.
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Re:French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen by Not_a_pizza on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:41AM (#19552691)
Here we are in the "age of information" and there is still no way to distinguish between the shill and/or troll and the genuine information provider. Glorious.

This age of electronics and logic and AI should have been able to provide a reasonable benefit to consumers at the very bottom. Instead, corporations have found new ways to rig things, impersonate people, and generally be dishonest about the quality and effectiveness of their offerings.

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