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Archival of information and software that is no longer available, such as NES games.
Any and all book piracy is ethical. It's just like a library. If libraries are ethical libgen is ethical.
Libraries are ethical because they pay for the books. If we're limited to only physical books, then they buy new ones every ~8-12 rentals. Additionally (though I couldn't verify this through a search), I've heard they also pay more to buy them.
How does them paying for it make it more ethical? If I buy a book and put it on libgen does that make it OK then?
I have never, ever heard of a library rebuying the same book every 8-12 rentals, ever. What do they do with the old ones?