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Originally Posted by LCF
Fighting piracy is not a bad thing. As long as the whole operation is not just a smoke screen. I've seen something similar in another country where downloading a movie/song/software from a torrent site is more or less SOP. After years of "yeah, we are gonna do something about it" the government closed.... a (n online) library!  Just to clarify, there are almost no audio books there, and the only way to get hold of a book (if you are unable to read on paper <blindness or similar>) was this library. The whole operation was meant to show how the government takes care of fighting piracy. Instead it aroused a lot of negative feedback. |
I'm pretty sure that I remember the case you're talking about (it was in Eastern Europe - Bulgaria?), and if my recollection is correct, it was not an "online library" but simply a web site illegally hosting material without the copyright holders' consent.