Library Genesis
File-sharing website for print publications
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| March 14 2025 | LibGen's libgen.is URL is reported to be operational again after previous months of downtime. |
| February 2025 | The LibGen URL libgen.is continued to be down during February. |
| February 2025 | Library Genesis (LibGen) continues to experience website downtime for its libgen.is URL during February. |
| January 2025 | LibGen's URL libgen.is went down, experiencing an outage that continued through March 2025. |
| January 2025 | Wired magazine reported that Meta Platforms used Library Genesis (LibGen) resources to train its AI language models, based on court documents from a class-action lawsuit filed by authors Richard Kadrey, Christopher Golden, and comedian Sarah Silverman against Meta. |
| January 2025 | The LibGen URL libgen.is was reported as being down during January. |
| January 2025 | Library Genesis (LibGen) experiences website downtime for its libgen.is URL during January. |
| December 2024 | Publishers successfully seized the 'library.lol' domain and took most Library Genesis domains offline. |
| December 2024 | The majority of Library Genesis domains are seized or disabled through legal action by a group of publishers led by Pearson Education. The German consortium (CUII) also institutes a country-wide blocking order against Library Genesis without court authorization. |
| September 26 2024 | A US judge ordered LibGen to pay the publishers US$30 million, despite uncertainty about who operates the platform. |
| March 23 2024 | The Dutch pirate site blocklist added Library Genesis and Anna's Archive following a request by BREIN, a local anti-piracy group, further restricting the platform's availability. |
| March 1 2024 | Publishers requested a default judgment and an injunction to compel gateway providers IPFS, Pinata Technologies, and Cloudflare to deny services to Library Genesis. |
| September 14 2023 | Pearson Education, McGraw Hill Education, Macmillan Publishers, and Cengage Group initiated a copyright infringement lawsuit against Library Genesis in the Southern District of New York. |
| 2020 | The Library Genesis project is forked under a new domain 'libgen.fun' due to internal project conflicts. |
| 2020 | The project launched a peer-to-peer digital library of content using IPFS, expanding Library Genesis and Sci-Hub's digital archiving capabilities. |
| 2019 | Archivists and freedom of information activists launched a project to improve seeding and hosting of LibGen's data dumps, with project coordinator 'shrine' describing it as creating a 'permanent library card for the world'. |
| November 2018 | Library Genesis was blocked by Russian internet service providers, marking a significant legal challenge to the platform's accessibility in Russia. |
| October 2015 | District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered LibGen to shut down and suspend use of the libgen.org domain, though the site remained accessible through alternative domains. |
| June 18 2015 | District Court for the Southern District of New York allowed Elsevier to serve notice on the defendants by email. |
| June 3 2015 | Elsevier lawsuit initiated against Library Genesis and Alexandra Elbakyan, accusing them of operating an international network of piracy and copyright infringement. |
| 2014 | LibGen's catalog grows to more than 1.2 million records, which is over twice the size of the previous library.nu collection. |
| 2014 | Sci-Hub relied on Library Genesis for storage of research papers and books until the end of this year, using LibGen as a primary source for accessing and serving academic documents. |
| 2012 | Library Genesis absorbs the contents of library.nu after it is shut down by legal action. |
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