Library Genesis is having a severe outage, and for the past week, no ebook or digital textbook downloads have been working. This is a severe blow to students who cannot afford to buy overpriced ...

The popular e-book download site Z-Library was shut down earlier this month by U.S. federal authorities, as we reported last week, likely for the distribution of pirated materials. This left students ...

While U.S. authorities were taking down the free and popular (and potentially illegal) e-book download site Z-Library, and arrest those affiliated with it this past month, internet archivers were ...

A group of leading textbook publishers, including Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill, and Pearson Education, have sued Library Genesis over staggering copyright infringement. The lawsuit claims ...

Anthropic has settled a civil suit and agreed to pay authors $1.5B in a landmark copyright case involving the use of training artificial intelligence models on pirated copies of books. Anthropic, ...

Library Genesis is now the subject of a massive lawsuit regarding copyright infringement. It is reportedly not the first lawsuit the site has received. Library Genesis Named in a Lawsuit and Was ...

A new project has just launched with the goal of preserving all human knowledge. The problem? It’s illegal. The Pirate Library Mirror is what it says on the tin: a mirror of existing libraries of ...

Anthropic, which was recently valued at $183 billion, is still facing lawsuits from companies like Reddit, which struck a ...