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(UNLOCKED) Platforms of Freedom: Prefiguring Library Socialism

Srsly Wrong

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The Universal Library

I'm currently signed up on a private torrent tracker for books. I spent a day or two downloading as many books they didn't already have in their system from my library system and uploading them stripping the DRM doing all this stuff. What that particular torrent site has built is just like a shadow of what could be built if the legal structures were in place to just make this all possible. The only reason we don't have this is because it's illegal and it costs money to fight the legal system on this. There's been great libraries online. There's like the ultimate ebook library or tubal awesome ebook library was shut down. But there's a lot that exists now that manages to survive despite

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