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Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds

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419 points hn_acker | 4 comments | 20 Nov 24 23:36 UTC | HN request time: 1.072s | source
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bastard_op ◴[21 Nov 24 01:17 UTC] No.42200020[source]▶
Some 28 years ago I taught myself everything could get/find from graphic design, basic development, server administration, etc, all downloading commercial warez over dial-up with AOL and Usenet. I didn't need a class or subscriptions, with every software and book I could have wanted, I had the best lab in the world with any software available I could want with piracy.

Fast forward 30 years now it's mostly the same as it was, only open source replaced all the commercial, and little has changed that I can still get the rest too. You can pay as much or little as you want in life if you know how.

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jjtheblunt[dead post] ◴[21 Nov 24 01:26 UTC] No.42200079[source]▶
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1. LennyHenrysNuts ◴[21 Nov 24 01:33 UTC] No.42200133[source]▶
If I take your car, you are now without a car. If I copy your software, you still have your software. If I was never going to buy your software in the first place, you have lost nothing.

Enough with the false equivalence.

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2. fragmede ◴[21 Nov 24 02:07 UTC] No.42200348[source]▶
If.

I've paid for things when I could have gotten it for free, and also taken things for free when I should have paid for it.

Enough with the false dichotomy.

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3. ◴[21 Nov 24 02:10 UTC] No.42200360[source]▶
4. PittleyDunkin ◴[21 Nov 24 04:51 UTC] No.42201236[source]▶
You could just as easily argue the software or content should be released for free as it's associated with effectively zero marginal cost.