“zomg russian cyber criminals are using free books to fund their lavish lifestyles!!!1!1!!!1! you should go support corporate rent seeking publishers ‘creators’ by paying thousands for basic knowledge!!!11”
this shit sounds like it was written by a middle schooler making a history presentation. it’s hilarious
Meanwhile, ai companies that are doing exactly the same are allowed to rack up billions in revenue.
“It’s American for profit corporation, not a Russian cybercriminal!”
Seems like a fairly reasonable way to live. Is that supposed to look lavish?
Let’s see the lifestyles of the CEOs for Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier for comparison.
Let’s see the lifestyles of the CEOs for Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier for comparison.
FBI be like:
There’s a rainbow. Its so gay! Therefore … wrong!!!111
Let’s see Paul Allen’s lifestyle.
It even has a watermark.
Those fucks forcing money into their pockets from science are the absolute dregs of society. I actually respect angel investors more since maybe they made a good decision with their money (that feels gross to just type, even!). The fact that a select few companies are able to make science pay to win is absolutely sickening.
This is coming from someone that never even graduated college, let alone spending time in academia.
As if money actually goes to the content creators 😂
More hilarious jokes have never been told in history
Not a boat! Not a family vacation! Gasp! An… RV!?!?? SOMEONE THINK OF THE RIGHTSHOLDERS!
That boat and RV look middle class at best.
It’s almost as if some desk jockey used photos from their family vacation lol.
They… Own a tiny home? Wow. What luxary.
Oh, no! People are enjoying their lives!
Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?
Yet here they are trying to own Z-Libs
Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?
😂
THOSE MOTHER FUCKERS BOUGHT A RAINBOW!?
I’m impressed.
I know right? They don’t come cheap from the Rainbow Factory, those ponies drive a hard bargain.
Memories once buried have been unearthed…
But really, books already are not the way to make a fortune unless you are in the field of basically being able to dictate what books are used in every educational institution in an entire nation. How would they imagine a pirate, who shares these books, has server upkeep to pay and at best gets very sporadic donations, could afford a lavish lifestyle from this endeavour?
It’s for rainbow washing :)
No the poor copyright owners I’m so upset
That seems nice. Glad they’re getting something in return for saving me so much money.
Note that with rare exceptions, creators are not supported by your purchases. Rather the studios, labels and publishers wh cheat creators are.
If you want to support the creators, pay them directly, or go to one of their performances / signings / functions. But still pirate their work.
That’s what I always do. There are smaller creators that I support via donations or patreon but I never pay directly for the content itself.
I’m disappointed I didn’t see a piracy parody of this before seeing this. Come on internet.
I found out about this the other day and the first impression I got was that someone hacked their server and put this just for laughs.
Yeah it’s legit, it’s been up a hot minute (since May iirc). I clicked the wrong zlibrary bookmark out of reflex and then remembered how hilarious the scare screen was.
Since they now own the domain, can we DDOS it to rack up their expenses? Fuck them they don’t deserve money.
I… don’t condone such behavior but I also don’t hate this idea lol
