Publishers sue to shut down alleged pirated book site WeLib

Reuters: “A group of major book publishers including the “Big Five” English-language book publishing houses — Hachette, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Macmillan and ​Simon & Schuster — sued an alleged pirated book website for copyright infringement ‌in New York federal court on Tuesday. The publishers said in the complaint that WeLib hosts tens of millions of pirated books and provides access to tech companies for their ​AI training. They said WeLib copied the source code and ​contents of Anna’s Archive, another prominent pirate-book site that the publishers sued ⁠in March…”

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