Surprisingly edited by MIT press. It was the MIT police which referred Aaron Swartz to federal prosecutors for piracy. He was hounded to death.
In-depth article about how shadow library sites like LibGen came to be and why they matter.
Breaks down the history and shows how helpful LibGen is for regular folks and us amateur scientists who just want to learn without hitting paywalls.
Wtf is that image?
Brah, think of it as millions of data-drenched pages, packed with high-voltage scholarly juice, swirl through the wires like ghost smoke, and then vanishing into the hidden vaults of a shadow library buried deep in the darkweb. A digital rebel bunker, ducking the sweaty claws of greedy suits who’d sell knowledge by the ounce if they could!
OR just some random AI image the author of the piece picked? I don’t know.
It’s obviously AI generated, but it’s not a library. It’s a coliseum. Very strange choice.
It is a panopticon
Probably a representation of the legend of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when many ancient works were presumed lost forever.
More images: https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&q=library+of+alexandria+burning&t=images&origin=suggest
Oh good catch!
Agreed. Honestly, it didn’t even really need a pic.
