“zomg russian cyber criminals are using free books to fund their lavish lifestyles!!!1!1!!!1! you should go support corporate rent seeking publishers ‘creators’ by paying thousands for basic knowledge!!!11”
this shit sounds like it was written by a middle schooler making a history presentation. it’s hilarious
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I… don’t condone such behavior but I also don’t hate this idea lol
I’m disappointed I didn’t see a piracy parody of this before seeing this. Come on internet.
No the poor copyright owners I’m so upset
Seems like a fairly reasonable way to live. Is that supposed to look lavish?
Let’s see the lifestyles of the CEOs for Springer, Wiley, and Elsevier for comparison.
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.
There’s a rainbow. Its so gay! Therefore … wrong!!!111
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.
It even has a watermark.
That boat and RV look middle class at best.
It’s almost as if some desk jockey used photos from their family vacation lol.
Oh, no! People are enjoying their lives!
Meanwhile, ai companies that are doing exactly the same are allowed to rack up billions in revenue.
“It’s American for profit corporation, not a Russian cybercriminal!”
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:
Oh no, somebody who might be Russian took a family vacation to go fishing with their loved ones!? What an orgy of indulgence! The audacity!
That caravan looks nice
So funny 😂. I really thought it was fake.
Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?
Yet here they are trying to own Z-Libs
Isn’t the FBI supposed to be non-political?
😂
I don’t pay for piracy, but if I did I’d be glad I could help.
As if money actually goes to the content creators 😂
More hilarious jokes have never been told in history
“You can’t download a boat”?
Not with that attitude you can’t!
Call the 3D printers, we need a bigger benchy!
I found out about this the other day and the first impression I got was that someone hacked their server and put this just for laughs.
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.
