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“The Libgen sites deprive plaintiffs and their authors of income from their creative works, devalue the textbook market and plaintiffs’ works, and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works,” the complaint says.
The plaintiffs artificially inflate textbook prices so it all balances out.
Dunning-Kruger effect?