U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction

Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by BriggyDwiggs42 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:06PM (#41663399)

My positive experiences with libraries is exactly what I’m drawing on. It seems to me that if physical libraries can be made free to use, nothing prevents a digital equivalent other than lack of the same sort of funding.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by jen729w on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:39PM (#41663724)

There is a digital equivalent. Your local library allows you to borrow e-books or e-audio-books. (Probably.)

The apps are a bit janky, but they're there.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by eoinbmorg on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:54PM (#41663903)

The notion of 'borrowing' an e-book, which has no intrinsic limit to number of times it can be checked out or when it must be returned, is a joke.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @07:40PM (#41664754)

Those are missing many books because they only work at the whim of the publishers. Also they cost extra money to run which further limits them.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by gizajob on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:47PM (#41663821)

The apps are beyond janky compared to free PDFs and epubs delivered in seconds from libgen with no login.

Long live libgen - one of my favourite places on the ‘net.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by DarmokJalad1701 on Thursday September 26, 2024 @06:23PM (#41664162)

Ah yes. The amazing service where you have to wait for someone else to finish reading an ebook before you are allowed to "borrow" it ... because reasons. Because obviously reading an ebook is not thread-safe.

As opposed to freely being able to download a PDF on-demand regardless of who else is reading it.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by getwiththeprog on Friday September 27, 2024 @12:39AM (#41666303)

My library service has an e-book loan system. When I go to get an item - if they have it - it is often "unavailable to borrow". Ridiculous.

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Re:U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issue... by account42 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:32AM (#41708167)

I don't need to use any janky apps to borrow a physical book though.

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