12/22/2023 0 Comments Audio zello 2k guardian![]() Set in the Cyberpunk universe, the animated series serves as a prequel to the game. The synopsis of the show reads “a standalone episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future”. The anime series, produced by Studio Trigger, is based on the video game Cyberpunk 2077 developed by CD Projekt Red. Septemmarked the premiere of the web anime series Cyberpunk: Edgerunners on Netflix. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights expressly states that everyone has a right to education, how is this to be interpreted in face of digital ebook databases? Especially one upon which the education (or at least intellectual recreation) of millions depend upon? While the Author’s Guild’s website describes the mission of the Guild to “advocate for the rights of writers by supporting free speech, fair contracts, and copyright,” a question to ask is whether banning online ebook databases truly promote free speech? And if yes, what are the consequences? Meanwhile, Z-library has played a critical role in making educational sources such as academic textbooks and peer-reviewed articles free of charge for struggling university students and those from developing countries. Digital book piracy have dire consequences on the livelihoods of authors, disproportionate affecting independent or self-published authors. On the one hand, writers such as those in the Author’s Guild (America’s largest professional organizations for writers) have voiced their concern over websites like Z-library stealing their work without due compensation. Responses to the seizure has been largely divided. Although the court order has yet to be publicized, many suspect that the seizure is due to the large amount of files uploaded onto the site and shared with authorization from the original authors. Now, users who visit the site will be faced with a page that reads: “This domain has been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service in accordance with a court order.” So far, the US Department of Justice has refused to comment on the seizure of Z-library’s internet domains. Z-library once boasted a collection of over 11 million books and 84 million articles at its peak, and was loved by students, academics, and book-lovers alike. Shadow libraries are online databases of readily available content, generally free of charge, offering sources normally inaccessible to readers due to financial costs or membership requirements. Just last Friday, November 4, 2022, marked the fall of Z-Library, an online free ebook repository hailed as the internet’s largest “shadow library”.
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