Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal.

  • lud@lemm.ee
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    1 hour ago

    Lol

    Free dissemination of knowledge that benefits the advancement of mankind should never be illegal. In fact, Z-Library being illegal is immoral. That being said, I simply use Z-Library to inspect books before purchasing them. Translations from different authors are often remarkably different. Sometimes books have horrible layout. So yeah, Z-Library has been indispensable to avoid wasting money. Case in point, part of the first paragraph of Dostoevsky’s House of the Dead, the Dover versus Penguin edition

    If z library only contained actual knowledge sure, but it seems to be primarily fiction. But no it’s immortal because the author likes to save money and not go to a physical store.

    I like piracy too but saying that banning piracy is immortal and comparing it to apartheid, slavery and ccolonialism is just ridiculous.

    • arsCynic@beehaw.orgOP
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      34 minutes ago

      “I like piracy too but saying that banning piracy is immortal and comparing it to apartheid, slavery and ccolonialism is just ridiculous.”

      When one puts it like that it sure does seem ridiculous, but to me it is obvious that the analogy I am making is purely the fact that something being illegal does not mean it’s immoral.