Quoting [a post on the orange site](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33639015):

*Me and my colleagues will be affected by the end of Z library and co related projects.*

*Here in Brazil and for sure in most second and third world countries, people don't have money to spend in books.*

*You can argue that people can go to the library, but in most cases it's even expensive to take a bus or taxi even a Uber.*

*I'm a law student at an university in brazil. Law books are really expensive. Even though my university have a library, sometimes it doesn't have the books that the professors ask us to read.*

*Since I found z library I could have access to most of books that I needed.*

*I do know that the writers and publishers have costs and they need to make money, but I don't agree with the fact that we have to pay to have knowledge. It's more like if we don't have money, we can't have knowledge.*

#piracy #humanrights