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“Most notorious” illegal shadow library sued by textbook publishers

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Publishers sue Library Genesis , an illegal shadow library, for copyright violations.

Publishers suing include Cengage Learning , Macmillan Learning , McGraw Hill , and Pearson Education .

Libgen offers free downloads for over 20,000 books that publishers never authorized Libgen to distribute.

Publishers want an order blocking Libgen from any future or ongoing infringement, an order forcing all of Libgen 's domain names to be transferred to publishers or deleted.

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English

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