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 York federal court has ordered Library Genesis (LibGen), a long-established website known as a 'pirate library' that publishes pirated copies of books online, to pay $30 million in damages for ...

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 ...