Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by Eisenstein on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:52PM
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What happens when the key leadership retires/dies? No one has ever found a solution to this problem. It is not novel nor simple, and certainly not exclusive to any group, project, or institution.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by fsckboy on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:03PM
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look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by throwaway14356 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @08:22PM
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Gradually scale back your [great] leadership and find people to do well defined small parts of it. The dynamic flexible structure becomes rigid and decays much more slowly.
Eventually even the top tasks can be strictly defined and frozen in time.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by lyu07282 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:19PM
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I mean it's not literally about the piratebay or libgen, or napster or whatever. I think historically it's true to say that it never really mattered how much effort they invest in destroying piracy. The fact that storage gets cheaper, yet text won't grow in size over time also makes me rather optimistic. Piracy was also always a decentralized effort by like-minded individuals, it's about the idea, you can arrest people, seize a name and people die, but an idea will never die.
Piracy of books in particular has been around since the 17th century btw, if that helps to convey why I'm not worried.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by throwaway14356 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @08:27PM
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the running joke is to call it the organization.
i coin a protocol in 2005 and in 2007 i•ve combined 6 torrents into one archive. Clearly Im an upstanding member of the organization.
Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue...
by NoMoreNicksLeft on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:28AM
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> A better example would be rarbg, which is not alive anymore.
There you go, ruining my evening again. Hope you're happy, making an old man cry.
In fact, I even worry a bit about what will happen to Linux when Torvalds finally passes away, and for sure Linux depends on him much less so than all those pirate resources on the people who maintain them.