This reminds me the very person download academia papers to his laptop was pushed to suicide.<p>Heroes died honorably for nothing. The shameless gets rich.
I used to work in a national lab and one day got an email from IT asking why I was torrenting so much (they use a tool to monitor network traffic so they knew exactly what machine was generating gigabytes of traffic). I told them I was downloading linux (true) and they put me on a whitelist. But it still felt weird.
Anna’s Archive shared many Chinese companies paid handsome money to get its data.<p>Did Meta pay for get these archive too? If not, that will be quite funny as they are just so stingy; if they did pay Anna, I wonder if Anna can reach a deal with Authors Guild to exchange the proof for the release of Z-Lib operators.