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Originally Posted by hobnail
Is that a bootleg site?
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Originally Posted by MrSlow&Steady
Uh, maybe? Not the usual kind if it is.
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Ummm... it is a bootleg aka pirate site. Look at it's mirror sites such as libgen.lc and libgen.pw as a rather strong indicator.
Not to mention that when I look at the books available, the first book in the Forensics section is
Forensic Examination of Glass and Paint: Analysis and Interpretation edited by Brian Caddy which is on Amazon.ca for $218.70 for the Kindle edition. Moving on to fiction, I did some quick searches. Somehow I doubt authors such as Larry Niven, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett or even Nora Roberts who has been rather vigilant about protecting her rights, gave them the right to distribute what appears to be most of their books for free.
So I would suggest
not asking at MobileRead for help with pirated ebooks.
Though I will have to admit that I found their site policies rather humourous.
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1. Goals, Priorities, and Affiliation of LG
1.1. Collection, systematization and distribution of scientific, technical and educational literature on a free and open basis.
1.2. LG is made by people and belongs to the people.
1.3. The goals are to create and improve, avoiding uncontrollable states, with constructive mind to help the society overcome barriers. The goal is not to destroy anything.
1.4. The goals of the community override the goals of its members.
1.5. Survival of LG is a priority.
2. Prohibitions
2.1. Profit.
2.2. Disclosure or exchange of personal information, disclosure of access credentials or other identifying details.
2.3. Transfer of assets explicitly affiliated with LG, disclosure of critical LG data, their destruction, or modification of access to them, outreach on behalf of the LG community by others than the Management Council.
2.4. Activities that defame LG’s principles, intentionally misleading information, and activities directly aimed at destruction in the broadest sense.
2.5. Individualism in decision-making (violates the fundamental principle of collectivity of Library Genesis, leading to a completely different type of system: centralized, closed and, as a result, non-self-organizing, and to radically different dynamics).
2.6. Usurpation of power, access, or developments under the auspices of LG, misuse of LG assets, manipulation of the community engaged in LG, misleading of it, substitution of goals, priorities, affiliation, falsification of history.
2.7. Commit actions based on opinions with insufficient scientific reasoning.
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