“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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    1 month ago

    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.

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      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.