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ZLibrary domains have been seized by the United States Postal Inspection Service
- cft 4y agoDNS failure on https://z-lib.org https://z-lib.org https://booksc.org https://booksc.org
- louky 4y agoOh wow. that's awful. Anyone have the actual IPs? that's what matters if the servers and IP addresses aren't seized.
- night-rider 4y ago> Anyone have the actual IPs? The site can't be reached with a bare IP z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 www.z-lib.org 66.212.148.115 Their DNS resolver indicates it was seized: ns1.seizedservers.com hostmaster@seizedservers.com
- louky 4y agoOK. Cheers for that information. Tor it is then, and I'll self-host the DB.
- addminztrator 4y agoIt may have been functional before but now it says domain name has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security and displays a copyright notice. The onion link is still functional though!
- GolDDranks 4y agoWhat surprised me was that there is something called "United States Postal Inspection Service" that has some police-like law enforcement powers. Every so often you TIL something about the US.
- system2 4y agoIf you are into that kind of thing, go ahead and read all U.S. Government Departments here: https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies Some weird ones are there for sure.
- somenameforme 4y agoYou should see a recent job listing for the IRS (Internal Revenue Service - tax department): https://www.newsweek.com/irs-deletes-requirement-that-new-agents-willing-use-deadly-force-1733352 https://www.newsweek.com/irs-deletes-requirement-that-new-ag... You need to be in good physical shape, willing to work a minimum of 50 hours a week including irregular hours, be on call 24/7, and of course also not only carry a firearm but be willing to use deadly force. I'm sure they were flooded with applicants.
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- walthamstow 4y agoWait til you hear about the UK's Post Office wrongly prosecuting dozens of people based on its arcane technical position as a prosecutor, held since 1683 but very rarely used https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
- NoGravitas 4y agoNot only that, they were the ones that brought in the Unibomber.
- astura 4y agoIt's not "police-like," the Postal Inspectors ARE police with their own police academy, their own crime lab, and everything. They are actually one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the US.
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- paperbenni 4y agoI think it's really funny that the actual legal notice that's now on the site has a background image that could come from a 90s hacker movie.
- michaelcampbell 4y agoOr a cryptoransom gang.
- mmastrac 4y agoHow did they seize b-ok.cc?
- KMnO4 4y agoGood question, I was wondering this too. From Wikipedia, I found: > .cc is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, an Australian territory. It is administered by a United States company, VeriSign, through a subsidiary company, eNIC, which promotes it for international registration as "the next .com".
- CameronNemo 4y agohttps://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/ https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoSo they need a ".ru" domain, or some us-unfriendly country then?
- onetimeusename 4y agothat might work, yes. I wouldn't expect it to last forever though because the US gov doesn't like jurisdictions that evade their power. Russians could seize it if they felt like it too. I have some experience with that. Ideally you would exploit bad diplomatic relations between nations to keep things running. Mutually non cooperative jurisdictions can actually be good for the internet. I do think the intention of the US gov is to completely control the internet though, copyright and DRM violations being a major motivation. As much as they claim they are about 'cooperation and collaboration' or some other nonsense, it's really about hard power.
- from 4y agoto, is, su, etc. There are enough TLDs to last a lifetime for a pirate site operator.
- Scoundreller 4y agoThis link doesn’t explain much. And at least in Canada, doesn’t show any seizure notice.
- KMnO4 4y agoTry this link: http://es.b-ok.lat/ http://es.b-ok.lat/
- aliqot 4y agoIt says seized, however, this is the first time I've seen a .lat TLD. I wonder if this is Latin America or Latvia edit: found it! cool! > .lat is an Internet generic top-level domain (gTLD) for Latin American communities and users wherever they may reside.
- CameronNemo 4y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.lat https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.lat What is interesting is that this does not appear to be a Verisign operated domain. The operator appears to be based entirely outside the US. I wonder how difficult it was to seize the domain.
- aliqot 4y agoCountries outside of US diplomacy often are amenable to financial diplomacy.
- gbil 4y agoBut it shows a block notice coming from Greece with the local message from the local copyright organization. This is really interesting, seems like there is a global list that local organizations also use and ask ISPs to do DNS redirections
- idontwantthis 4y agoPurchased ebooks are like ebooks except you can only read them in Adobe's shitty app, you can't share them with your kids, and you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow. I want to purchase ebooks, but I want to own what I purchase!
- thrdbndndn 4y agoWhy is it guaranteed? I have been buying ebooks for more than 10 years and they still work.
- orbital-decay 4y agoBecause someday either that DRM will be obsolete or Adobe itself will die. The probability of that is 1, so it's guaranteed.
- thrdbndndn 4y agoNo doubt, but I'm questioning the timeframe. > you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow
- idontwantthis 4y agoI meant it is inevitable and uncertain, and will be sudden.
- komali2 4y agoSome don't, like... literally 1984 and animal farm in one instance lol https://slate.com/technology/2009/07/how-amazon-s-remote-deletion-of-e-books-from-the-kindle-paves-the-way-for-book-banning-s-digital-future.html https://slate.com/technology/2009/07/how-amazon-s-remote-del...
- dredmorbius 4y agoObxkcd: <https://xkcd.com/488/ https://xkcd.com/488/>
- collegeburner 4y agobookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion still up on TOR. fuck them i aint paying for my textbooks. never had a book bill higher than $50 and not about to start now.
- midislack 4y agoBump this. EDIT - don't bump this. Why would you need an account to download pirated shit? LOL absolutely pathetic.
- _fvh3 4y agoTextbook prices are outrageous, I am not paying for a £60 textbook that I will only use for the question banks
- frickinLasers 4y ago> £60 Boy, wouldn't that be nice. A standard calculus book costs $200 in America. Or, £178 (RIP pounds)
- Ruthalas 4y agoA chemistry textbook of mine was 600 USD- brand new because the version published that year was required. That really stung.
- freefaler 4y agoWhy doesn't students pull their funds for 1 book and then scan it and use that electronic copy? (and may be return/resell the physical book)?
- Ruthalas 4y agoThat's not a bad plan from a cost perspective, though scanning a 200+ page textbook is reasonably complex, and very time consuming.
- CameronNemo 4y agoIn an effort to prevent blacklisting of domains (oftentimes by internet providers at the DNS-level in accordance with legal procedures), Z-Library uses a homepage at a memorable domain. The homepage does not contain any infringing content, but instead lists many working mirror domains for different regions. These domains can be switched and do not need to be as memorable. For instance, some include numbers. Nice try, I guess :/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
- selcuka 4y ago> Nice try, I guess :/ It has worked so far.
- wolrah 4y agoNon-mobile link for those of us using desktop browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library (can someone explain to me why every site in the world will redirect mobile browsers to a limited page but won't redirect desktop browsers back to the full featured version?)
- m348e912 4y agoAt least there is still tor. loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd .onion Update: The z-library wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library) lists the following zlib onion domain which doesn't require a login: zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion
- robarr 4y agoi tried and it does not requieres to login to browse the site, but to download a book is says that the limit of downloads has been reached (apparently a tor connection appears as a localhost one 127.0.0.1) and then asks to login.
- theage 4y agoi can sign up fine in tor but the actual downloads directed me to zlibcdn.com/dtoken/ which is also down and the tor book preview doesn't work either.
- joak 4y agoActually the Telegram bot works flawlessly. 1. access Z-lib page with TOR 2. Sign-up, get your token for the Telegram bot 3. Send your token to the bot: https://t.me/firstlibrarybot https://t.me/firstlibrarybot 4. Search and request your docs to the bot
- hadnayeer 4y agoWhat the correct url?
- collegeburner 4y agotor bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion all the clearnet addresses are dead.
- hda2 4y agoWikipedia currently lists zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion as the Tor address on their page[1]. Does z-library have two tor addresses? 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
- unbad505 4y agoI personally have always used bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion, thats the link I found on the b-ok.cc site
- jrm4 4y agoAs a lawyer, I can't recommend it, but I absolutely cannot discern any moral difference whatsoever between reading a library book for free and purchasing it later if I like it, and doing the same first thing by downloading the ebook from somewhere "unapproved." It's all very silly.
- pacaro 4y agoAnd many libraries have an ebook lending service too
- couchand 4y agoSubject to numerous senseless restrictions!
- hansvm 4y agoIf the majority of customers for a given book are libraries and whatnot then it's no longer viable to make such a work. Mind you, I still think the whole thing is broken at its core and that we'd be better off if it were abolished, but would that sort of major change in incentives qualify as a moral difference?
- visarga 4y agoThe internet 'hates copyright', it wants to link everything up. Search hates copyright, can't work unless everything is open to indexing. Now the AI hates it even more, gobbling up everything ever written or imaged and creating derivatives at the click of a button. I don't think copyright has a future, the general trend is against it. Graphical artists have already realised it only takes a second to imitate any style or content. What's the point of copyrighting a book when anyone can generate any text just for their own use, when it's so cheap and fast we throw away the result after one use?
- dfxm12 4y agoIf a book (even an ebook) is in the library, it's already bought and paid for so the author gets whatever compensation they get as if it is a normal sale. I don't think arguing morals makes sense because of how subjective one's morals are, but, by using libraries, you are supporting the arts, whether you liked the book or not, and this is not a silly distinction.
- bytm3 4y agoThe U.S. Postal Inspection Service supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service and its customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use. What do they have to do with ebooks???
- CrazyPyroLinux 4y ago"Something something PATRIOT Act. Looks like we've got another 'domestic terrorist' here..."
- notch656a 4y agoThe federal government increasingly is finding interesting nooks and crannies to shove enforcement into. Customs and Border Protection is now larger than the FBI, and ICE which houses "homeland security investigations" is almost half their size. These, and other arms of government, are increasingly being used to clamp down on activity by citizens deep within US borders (such as the recent Portland riots).
- blooalien 4y agoAnd yet this same government randomly, arbitrarily, (or sometimes not at all) chooses to selectively enforce (or not) a wide variety of existing laws, all while busily making more new laws that may or may not be arbitrarily and randomly enforced (when / if it suits their current "agenda of the day"). It's gotten downright ridiculous, honestly.
- dane-pgp 4y agoAnother interesting example of the phenomenon you describe is that until 2003, the Secret Service was part of the Department of the Treasury, as the agency was founded in 1865 to combat the then-widespread counterfeiting of U.S. currency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service
- beanjuiceII 4y agoif they sent anything via mail, even once, then that's the justification
- bytm3 4y agoThe U.S. Postal Inspection Service supports and protects the U.S. Postal Service and its customers by enforcing the laws that defend the nation’s mail system from illegal or dangerous use. What do they have to do with ebooks??
- zinekeller 4y ago> What do they have to do with ebooks?? I haven't seen the court filings yet, but I guess that a unauthorized (by the publisher) physical reproduction of a book (that was domestically sent through USPS, otherwise it'll be under US CBP) that just so happens that the source for the PDF used for the physical reproduction is from Z-Library.
- skissane 4y ago> What do they have to do with ebooks?? I think legally they can investigate whatever (alleged) crimes they want – subject to the outcome of any turf wars with other government agencies. Their official purpose may be to investigate one particular category of crimes, but it is unlikely any court is going to throw out a prosecution because the "wrong" agency gathered the evidence. Government agencies are frequently trying to expand their empires, move into new areas, prove their continuing relevance when faced with technological changes that undermine their original reason for existence. At the extreme, you end up with agencies whose names are purely historical and have nothing to do with their current functions. A good example of that is the Railroad Commission of Texas, which no longer has anything to do with railroads–now it is the Texas state regulator for the oil and gas industry (and also surface mining for coal and uranium). I don't know why they don't just change their name to "Texas Oil and Gas Commission" or something like that. One reason, of course, is that they don't actually control their own name, the Texas State Legislature does, and it seems it likes their name just the way it is.
- notch656a 4y agoAuthorizing funding is the responsibility of the legislative branch. Wouldn't the agencies, which are executive, need to follow the prescription of congress on use of funds to investigate?
- drpixie 4y agozlib might be infringing, and obviously they CAN do it, but: Why the USPS? (They presumably have no direct rights over the material.) And presumably the USPS has no actual rights in Poland or Hong Kong. :(
- Cypher 4y agoI was never going to buy the book anyway.
- taneq 4y agoThat’s my justification for downloading movies. I was never gonna buy it anyway, and my partner was always going to buy it anyway (olive theory is real) so it makes literally no difference.
- midislack 4y agoDoesn't really matter, you can still use TOR or IPFS or i2p. Like with KiwiFarms.
- creata 4y agoActually, how did KiwiFarm's usage stats change after they practically got kicked off the web?
- midislack 4y agoSame number of users, it’s not like it’s hard to use Tor Browser. 8chan is still up on Tor too.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoYou think no users dropped off when a site became only usable through Tor? What are you basing that on?
- CyberDildonics 4y agoYou think a site getting their domain seized doesn't matter?
- midislack 4y agoExactly. Not even a bit. It’s just if you don’t kowtow to globohomo you have to use the darknet now. Which is good, drives more people off the clearweb and hurts our censors and nannies.
- CyberDildonics 4y agoIf it doesn't matter, why does anyone buy a domain?
- sixtyfourbits 4y agoFortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of books but to get more you had to pay for a subscription). They started out as a fork of library genesis, whose mission has always been strictly non-commercial and about providing free access to everyone without limits. Hopefully this will encourage more people to go back to the original libgen. I suspect Z-library's popularity was because of a better interface and larger collection, but I think lots of people didn't realize libgen offers all its books/papers for free without limits.
- braingenious 4y agoWell damn, I guess I’ve gotta figure out how to get 30+TB of storage. Does anybody have any suggestions for doing that as cheaply as possible?
- tttttt5ts 4y agoBuy 3x 16 or 18 TB external harddrives on black Friday and shuck them. It is still going to run you $400-$500. Can't do it cheaper as far as I know.
- bl4ckneon 4y agoYep I have done that before to make a 6 bay NAS. Gotta tape over a couple connectors on the sata connector but works great. Datahorders on reddit is a great sub for that sort of stuff. Guides as well as people posting when the deals happen for WD elements (external hdds)
- mister_tee 4y agonot an argument but just an FYI for people reading about that idea for the first time: some NAS enclosures (QNAP, Synology?) and some power supplies can use the drives directly without disabling that 3.3V pin.
- defrost 4y agoThere are mirrors and torrents and extensions of the Z-Library collection, off the top of my head see: https://libgen.fun/ https://libgen.fun/ http://pilimi.org/ http://pilimi.org/
- dredmorbius 4y agoNote that LibGen is now a subset of Z-Library, as whilst ZLib sourced LibGen to seed itself, it's not contributed its own acquisitions back to Library Genesis. The Pirate Library Mirror (your second link) is a complete archive of Z-Library, though it's a bulk archive of several TB and not readily accessed for individual titles. The PLM is intended as a tool for building archives rather than as a direct source itself. (The pilimi.org link itself explains much of this.)
- synergy20 4y agoAll books should now have a link or paypal email at the back book cover so whoever read the book without pay, then find it useful and valuable, to have an effective way to send money over. yeah it's not ideal but, there might be quite some readers pay if they know how to do that easily.
- albert_e 4y agoBut that would encourage pirates to create fake recipients (that sound very similar to original) to channel money into their own pockets. With this incentive one can invest effort in high quality scans or OCR, well-formatted ebooks (pirated), and replace that last lime of text with own ID and flood the internet with these copies.
- approxim8ion 4y agoI suppose then we would need systems to verify that your payment is going to the intended recipient. Sure, that can be spoofed non-trivially too, but I'm sure it's possible to make it good enough without being perfect.
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- hda2 4y agoDomain seizures will always be a problem for networks that rely on centralized name resolution. I'm glad networks like Tor and IPFS exist.
- AlexCoventry 4y agoWhy the Postal Inspection Service? (Site's down for me, ATM.)
- fortran77 4y agoYou can still access it on tor, for example: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion/ http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52...
- dools 4y agoAgent Jack Danger on the case (it’s pronounced Donger)
- Daffodils 4y agoJackie's going on the hall of fame.
- terrycody 4y agoGod, so its over?
- Kodix 4y agoZLib was always just an interface for Library Genesis, which remains hale and hearty here: https://libgen.is https://libgen.is It seems like ZLib was seized mainly because they started running donation drives and potentially earning money on piracy, although that's just conjecture. Libgen does not do any such thing.
- laichzeit0 4y agoSorry but I need to browse through your book before I buy it. I do this for all the books I own. I need to see if I’d like it or not. Also, I hate reading on the computer and Kindle is ok but I like making notes in my books so I want the physical copy. If it wasn’t for library genesis or Z-lib I wouldn’t have bought as many books as I have. It’s an indispensable bullshit filter for me. There is no other option for me to browse through books without leaving my house, or even looking at much older books that are only available second hand without these digital catalogues.
- user3939382 4y agoMore impetus to sharpen our tools and their use to evade control of information by our corrupt, out of control, corporate-owned faux democratic government overlords. The lesson is: more tor, more IPFS, DHT, encryption, federated protocols, mesh networks, and P2P in general. This contest of power is one of the very few the People have any hope of winning.
- runjake 4y agoz-lib.org is responsible for me buying more books in the past couple years than I’ve ever bought. It essentially acted like an in-person bookstore for me that allowed me to browse a book to determine whether it was worth buying. Before z-lib, I generally tended toward avoiding wasting money. I guess I’m back to that again. (I like paper copies of tech books and Kindle copies of novels so I can sync reading and highlights between devices)
- books-r-free 4y agoI too like to buy books to have a physical copy. I almost always buy them used though, which probably doesn't help the copyright holder at all either. There are plenty of other sites to find books to skim before buying.
- endorphine 4y agoIt helps the trees though.
- Emma_Goldman 4y agoExactly. The idea that there is a zero-sum trade-off between pirated books and for-profit books is nonsense. I look through hundreds of books every year - often just skimming the introduction, or most relevant chapter - and if I like them enough, I'll take them out from the library or buy them. I buy more books because of libgen and z-lib, not less.
- AdmiralAsshat 4y agoMe, too. Although in my case, my consumption of legitimate books usually goes up because I'd get so irritated by the typos in the Z-lib copy that, if the book was interesting, I'd eventually go buy it from a legitimate source just so I could have a properly formatted copy. It's weird how many I've grabbed look like they were native EPUBs at first glance, but the repeated typos that no human would make betrays that they were sourced from OCRs.
- andrewla 4y agoAlthough I have grown increasingly frustrated with the Kindle ecosystem, I don't think this is a fair complaint. Amazon lets you download a sample of any book in their library, which is usually pretty substantial -- can be multiple chapters depending on the length of the book. I use this mechanism as my "shopping cart" where I just freely download samples of books that seem even slightly interesting. Later I can browse through my backlog, start reading, and either file it away for later, buy it, or delete it if it's clear that it's not for me.
- czhu12 4y agoThe mental gymnastics happening in this thread to justify pirating books is pretty disappointing. Especially on HN, where I think a lot of our livelihoods depend on writing and charging for closed source code that can technically be infinitely distributed. How many of us would be happy to open source all our code, provide easy ways for people to download and deploy, and then leave a PayPal link in the footer asking for donations? Why should authors be any different?
- dislikedtom2 4y agonothing wins the mental gymnastics when people justify how they own something that has no shape or form, namely information and ideas
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- tarunmuvvala 4y agoSimilar is the case from people who can't afford. They are not asking you to give it for free. What they want is that the information accessible at affordable prices. The current situation is an ABC book either cost $10-$20-$30 or they can get it pirated. there is no middle ground. People move to piracy due to lack of affordability and options.
- szundi 4y agoIn eastern europe sometimes it is the lack of legal options to actually access content. Example: star wars shows were unaccessible in any way other, academia papers, lots of books are not translated and published etc. Not making a moral judgement, just adding color.
- 5e92cb50239222b 4y agoAh, the downvotes from the extremely privileged (most of whom do not even realize this). I am from one of those countries where we pretty much cannot afford "legal" content. In my shitty town the median salary is something like $300, at least half of which goes towards paying rent if you don't have your own house, while we're being asked to pay prices that were established for developed countries with median salaries at 10× of ours or above. Steam is one of very few exceptions and it's really popular here even among students and such (just like everywhere else). Basically, if you want to charge me $50 for the book, you're not losing anything, simply because I cannot afford it anyway. Imagine if you had to pay $500 for books, $600 for movies, etc.
- neonate 4y agohttps://archive.ph/q3A4D https://archive.ph/q3A4D
- dang 4y agoRelated: Z Library - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365627 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29365627 - Nov 2021 (36 comments) Zshelf: Z-Library books downloader for reMarkable tablet - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355778 - March 2021 (51 comments)
- ijkxyz 4y agooh no, i use z library to make list of books I want to read.
- askridga666 4y agoUse can login to 3lib with their .onion domain http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion/ http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...
- fsiefken 4y agoyes, but the onion download links fail
- ccine 4y agoI have tried my best to skim through all the discussions and no one seems to have noticed the demand for zlibrary in third world countries. In a country like China, it is the only avenue for most researchers and students at the bottom to gain expertise. When you talk about classism, you should not ignore such groups.
- BirAdam 4y agoIn my experience, people in the USA don’t extend their moral virtues to foreign countries, and when they do it’s common for this to be done in an unequal fashion. Often, people will respond telling you that you’re guilty of “what-about-ism” despite you merely universalizing a value that they themselves claim to have. I’ve ceased trying to converse about moral virtues with my fellow Americans as a result. It’s every bit as unwelcome as talking money in the USA.
- user3939382 4y agoThat's a new trend, to dismiss hypocrisy by calling it whataboutism. IMHO the latter only legitimately applies where the comparison is tangential/apples to oranges, or if "two wrongs don't make a right" is being argued.
- Mindless2112 4y ago"Appeal to hypocrisy" was recognized as a logical fallacy long before it was called "whataboutism".
- droopyEyelids 4y agoThe trouble is that while it's a logical fallacy, it's not so clearly a moral fallacy.
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- askridga666 4y agoMy links collection of book-piracy services and DRM-free books https://hexchills.gitbook.io/ https://hexchills.gitbook.io/
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- marycare_70 4y agoCosa succede a z-library? Posso fare qualcosa per aiutare il progetto? Spero che presto possa tornare funzionante
- marycare_70 4y agoBuongiorno, Z-library non sta funzionando in Italia. Posso fare qualcosa per aiutare il progetto? Spero che presto possa tornare a funzionare. Grazie
- BazookaMusic 4y agoAnother success for agent Danger and USPIS. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMgQhOe6N6U https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMgQhOe6N6U
- dmix 4y agothe only time I'll upvote a Reddit-esque comment on HN
- xch 4y agoThis will happen to proof of stake based blockchains
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- vicociv 4y agoupload ebooks and metadata to Arweave, index data with the Graph.
- lawgimenez 4y agoOne of my alternate source is also down, 1lib.ph. I should have downloaded my to read books.
- m00dy 4y agoSo, does that mean any domain can be seized by a court order ?
- salawat 4y agoYes. That's been the default for decades, and is why I tell people not to rely on DNS hostnames. IP all the way.
- mattymf 4y agoAlso seized?? 66.212.148.115
- dredmorbius 4y agoPretty much, modulo jurisdiction of the domain registrar itself. A quick search turns up some related discussion from the EFF, though not precisely answering your question: <https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/if-government-cant-get-domain-seizures-right-why-should-we-expect-better-big https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/if-government-cant-get...>
- SergeAx 4y agoZ-Library is still accessible via TOR. You may find and onion-URL in Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library
- sleepycatgirl 4y agoBless TOR, it is such wonderful piece of software
- goatcode 4y agoIt looks to now have been removed. Update: it's back. You're a good man, Charlie Brown.
- Romie2008 4y agoI have downloaded Tor browser , pls advice how can I access z library books.
- mrGRINCHY 4y agoOpen the Tor Browser and go to: zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion
- Romie2008 4y agoHi , Thnx for updating this. May I seek your help in accessing z library thru Tor? I have downloaded Tor browser from z library link but dont know how to proceed. Appreciate the guidance , Thnx
- ailama23 4y agoCinco Secretos
- antoniasilva03 4y ago50 key thinkers in Globalisation
- Francwsca19 4y agoIo
- DeathArrow 4y agoDon't use US based domains if you suspect there might be a possibility in the future that some US agency or entity can seize you domains? Applies for any other jurisdiction.
- addminztrator 4y agoYou can use decentralized alternative domain name systems. OpenNIC is completely decentralized and there are a few projects which implement DNS on a blockchain, that would be the best solution to this kind of a problem. https://blog.cpanel.com/what-is-a-decentralized-domain-name-system/ https://blog.cpanel.com/what-is-a-decentralized-domain-name-...
- iggldiggl 4y agoUnfortunately, for me custom DNS providers aren't really useable unless I'd set up a fully configurable custom resolver, because with alternative DNS providers the IPs I receive for anything hosted by Akamai tend to be in a part of their CDN that has positively abysmal peering arrangements with my ISP.
- gustavorg 4y agohttps://b-ok.lat/ https://b-ok.lat/ and https://z-lib.org/ https://z-lib.org/ down too.
- mlatu 4y agojesus christ... i thought this was about zlib!
- hnburnsy 4y agoBack to Usenet and alt.binaries.e-book!
- mjreacher 4y agoI'm reading on the zlibrary subreddit that supposedly there were some popular (>300k views) TikToks going around showing that you could use z-lib to get free books. https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pending-piracy-investigation-221031/ https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pen... I wonder if this is related.
- Vorh 4y agoI much doubt it. This seems like the type of thing that would take a while to set up, and that article was posted less than a week ago.
- enme 4y agoAnyone mention Nexus on IPFS: http://k51qzi5uqu5dk9ji4oek1h08rg5ksqc4fjsqtyi43h3z6zuddwpgutepdzrgob.ipns.localhost:8080/ http://k51qzi5uqu5dk9ji4oek1h08rg5ksqc4fjsqtyi43h3z6zuddwpgu... Works just like libgen and is getting larger over time.
- dredmorbius 4y agoFirst I've heard of this. Any further information / background?
- sleepycatgirl 4y agoOoh, first time I hear about IPFS, seems pretty peculiar.. definitely going to check it out :D
- addminztrator 4y agoWell, if the domain names are seized, maybe we could connect directly to the IP address? Does anyone know the IP address of z-lib domains (b-ok.cc or z-lib.org)? This is going to make me want to keep a local log of all IP addresses which the domain names map to :(
- mattymf 4y agoAlso seized?? 66.212.148.115
- drummer 4y agoThey'll be back soon. No stopping this.
- weberdev 4y agowhat happened
- weberdev 4y agoWhat happened ? Why about ex presidents obama and clinton ?
- irrational 4y agoWell, the one good thing about this is it has forced me to learn about Tor and to download the Tor browser. I'd heard about Tor before, but never really looked into it.
- dredmorbius 4y agoMore information and background at Torrentfreaks: <https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-seize-z-library-domain-names-221104/ https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-authorities-seize-z-library-dom...>
- Zuouo 4y agoThat's crazy, gonna die without Zlibrary
- sansan81 4y ago
- addminztrator 4y agoAn update: I tried accessing the IP address directly a while ago and the Department of Homeland security was displaying a copyright notice saying that copyright infringement is punishable by a fine up to $200,000. Currently, there is an FBI notice saying they had a warrant from a New York court.
- srmarm 4y agoDoes the Department of Justice not think it's worth spending half an hour making something a bit more accessible? No text, not even an alt tag on that image. Shockingly bad and surprisingly non-compliant!
- paxlarevalx 4y agoComo va a hacer a partir de ahora habrá una nueva página en la web o tendremos que descargar alguna app amo mucho a z-library para no saber como ingresar de nuevo, encontré libros muy buenos ahí
- only4here 4y agoI always loved downloading them DRM-free. Because it felt like I had actually owned it instead of just reading it from some website that could snatch it back at any second. I know Library Genesis is still up and running fine, but this is a warning of things that could happen.
- maya12321 4y agocomo accedo a esto de thor?