The need for safe harbors like ZLibrary and Library Genesis and Anna's Archive sort of make me appreciate the existence of competing cultural divides like the post-Soviet and non-Western aligned nations. If the West controlled everything so granularly across the world I would have severely less access to free knowledge and reference material than I could ever afford myself.

I would be much poorer in intellect and resources and self-inprovement if my access was pegged to my economic status