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If the DoJ replaced google.com with a similar scare screen, a message about the AI feature appearing before search results, and photos of CEO yachts, that might actually give me hope for the future.

Maybe include a screenshot of the AI Overview so there's no ambiguity about what feature was problematic. Something like this:

Tangent - I remember reading a blog post when oink got seized saying that if the guy behind it was trying to make a profit rather than to create a library he would be respected like another Steve Jobs rather than being imprisoned. I still 100% believe that.

RIP oink's pink palace, I was a member for only two or three years but it opened up the world to me. Got invited from a guy at my undergrad I never met in person or knew his name, there was a local filesharing network on campus with a few hundred students on it and we had similar music tastes so would im occasionally. Hope you are doing well wherever you are now, meowfaceman.

Let’s see the lifestyles of the CEOs for Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier for comparison.

FBI be like:

Let's see Paul Allen's lifestyle.

Those fucks forcing money into their pockets from science are the absolute dregs of society. I actually respect angel investors more since maybe they made a good decision with their money (that feels gross to just type, even!). The fact that a select few companies are able to make science pay to win is absolutely sickening.

This is coming from someone that never even graduated college, let alone spending time in academia.

More hilarious jokes have never been told in history

It's almost as if some desk jockey used photos from their family vacation lol.

Bet it's a stock image the FBI didn't pay for

Makes me think of this video of the geneticist Albert Jacquard that tries to show how ideas will always be in the commons. How it's impossible for people to own a concept of an idea, using the example of "it's impossible to tell who saw the rainbow the first to own its concept".

It's in french but it's a total masterclass, I should translate it someday : https://effingo.be/2011/05/22/albert-jacquard-demonte-le-concept-de-propriete-intellectuelle/

Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?

😂

I know right? They don't come cheap from the Rainbow Factory, those ponies drive a hard bargain.

It's for rainbow washing :)

That's what I always do. There are smaller creators that I support via donations or patreon but I never pay directly for the content itself.

Yeah it's legit, it's been up a hot minute (since May iirc). I clicked the wrong zlibrary bookmark out of reflex and then remembered how hilarious the scare screen was.

Not with that attitude you can't!

you can't tell me what to do!

And then stole it again!

It's their se domain I saw it on, but most of their older domains also display this

http://z-library.se/