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 ...

A New York federal court has ordered Library Genesis (LibGen), a long-established website known as a 'pirate library' that publishes pirated copies of books online, to pay $30 million in damages for ...

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 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 ...