Comment by mystraline
10 hours ago
Thats easy.
Check out library genesis, Anna's archive, and scihub for content.
Piracy isnt theft if buying isnt ownership.
10 hours ago
Thats easy.
Check out library genesis, Anna's archive, and scihub for content.
Piracy isnt theft if buying isnt ownership.
Ironic those doing the most for making information open and accessible are the criminals.
Of course. When it's criminal to make information open and accessible, only criminals will make information open and accessible.
A centuries old problem. Early translations of the Bible to English were illegal or required licenses.
William Tyndale was put to death for translating the Bible into English, which would have been an act to make information open and accessible.
> William Tyndale was put to death for translating the Bible into English
That's not what he was put to death for. See https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/tyndales-her... and https://www.chinakasreflections.com/did-the-roman-catholic-c...
I’m genuinely curious how you feel about LLMs being trained on pirated material. Not being snarky here.
Your comment reflects the old “information wants to be free” ideals that used to dominate places like HN, Slashdot, and Reddit. But since LLMs arrived, a lot of the loudest voices here argue the opposite position when it comes to training data.
I’ve been trying to understand whether people have actually changed their views, or whether it’s mostly a shift in who is speaking up now.
why would that change anything? copyright is still a tax on the whole of society for the benefit of rich people and corporations. it opposes innovation, evolution and progress
maybe a short copyright would be fine (10 year fixed?) but copyright as-is seems indefensible to me
Personally, I'd like for copyright to be abolished, and then for LLM training to be made illegal for reasons entirely unrelated to copyright.
None of these does full text search.
And they are under constant threat by nation states. sci-hub hasn't seen new papers in ages.
Build a local index
My problem is finding references I don't know about.
zlibrary does
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
I'd wonder if you'd ever consider putting up a downloadable mirror of their full-text search db?
Huh, the search is not amazing but it will have to do. Thanks! Are there others?
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