There’s many laws not worth their enforcement costs.<p>These seizures are some of the only legal actions which are just emblematic of pure corruption. The government serving the interests of middlemen whose primary impact on science is making it less accessible and charging rents on it. It’s a hellish parody of copyright law.<p>If I worked for Elsevier I’d feel worse about what I did for a living than if I worked for Marlboro.
Argentina already 'home confined' two Russians who are battling extradition to the US to face charges.<p><a href="https://torrentfreak.com/home-confined-z-library-defendants-deny-they-are-fugitives-230914/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://torrentfreak.com/home-confined-z-library-defendants-...</a>
At some point in the future, people will look back at things like this in utter confusion - jail-time and a massive waste of police resources in order to stop people from sharing books…
Banning sites that share books. I guess they have already addressed all the illegal pornography, music, pirated soccer games, terrorism, offshore gambling, harrassment, credit card fraud, antiseminitism, homophobia, body shaming, fake news, doxing, zero day sales, and every other great evil on the internet. It has been a long journey, but now that all those are dealt with, we can now crack down on people wanting to <i>read too many books</i>.