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 ...

Library Genesis is now the subject of a massive lawsuit regarding copyright infringement. It is reportedly not the first lawsuit the site has received. Library Genesis Named in a Lawsuit and Was ...

Library Genesis has become popular with students at colleges across the United States, including San Jose State University. (Matt Simons/Courthouse News) SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) — Sasha didn’t pirate ...

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 ...

Library Genesis is having a severe outage, and for the past week, no ebook or digital textbook downloads have been working. This is a severe blow to students who cannot afford to buy overpriced ...

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 consortium of prominent US science and education publishers is taking legal action against the infamous online repository known as Library Genesis, or more commonly, LibGen, The Register reported.