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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated](arstechnica.com)

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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers [Updated]::Previous efforts to unmask the people behind Libgen have failed.

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macarthur_park@lemmy.world
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Nah, that was ARPANET. The internet (www) was invented because particle physicists were too lazy to carry magnetic tapes with experimental data around CERN.

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treadful@lemmy.zip
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To be entirely clear, the Internet is also not the World Wide Web. Which is what I believe you and @bullshitter@lemmy.world are referring to.

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Kaiserschmarrn@feddit.de
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Thank god! I’m also too lazy to carry around my magnetic tapes. I’m glad that happened.

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