This was fine when N = 28. Now it's life of the author plus 95 so there is almost no possibility of anything released in your lifetime to be a part of the public domain before you die.
I think it is worthwhile to explore cryptography that is not based on the discrete logarithm problem. Currently, we're keeping all eggs in one conjectured basket. Even if quantum computing will never be viable, there is a non-zero chance that the discrete logarithm problem will be solved in some other way.
Libgen is a civilizational project that should be endorsed, not prosecuted. I hope one day people will look at it and think how stupid we were today to shun the largest collection of literary works in human history.
So, what do we do with actual people who have a very similar voice to some "more famous" person?
It's quite silly when voices are far away from being unique to a person.
"Europe" is not USA. I don't know why the author wants it to be. Germany and Spain are different countries, even if we have some degree of a unified market.
> From consumer markets, languages, laws, education systems, taxes, to funding – Europe acts like a network of small countries instead of one unified market.
"Europe" does not ACT AS, it IS a network of "small" (not quite) countries.