Comment by bawolff

> Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits.

Ick.

I'm sympathetic to piracy, but the moment people start to make money off of pirated works it starts to feel much more wrong.