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A Coalition of 30 Major Publishers (including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins) Sue Anna's Archive Over 'Staggering' Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction (torrentfreak.com)
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The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating "staggering" levels of piracy. While the site's owners are not likely to put up a defense, the publishers' main goal appears to be to obtain an injunction that can apply further pressure on domain registrars and registries.

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[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 57 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Cool. Now that the Tech companies have pilfered it they're going to shut it down. There are a ton of books on there that aren't even worth money anymore. They're out of print or 1-2 editions behind the scholarly current.

This is just bullshit

I got access to a bunch of pay-walled scholarly papers on Anna's