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 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 ...

The shadow library Libgen (Library Genesis), which hosts numerous pirated books and journals that internet users can download at no cost, has been sued by a group of academic publishers over copyright ...

For many students around the world, the illicit book-sharing website Library Genesis has been a lifeline of free primary texts and scientific knowledge. It is such a widely accepted resource for free ...