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Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup). We are working on hosting this col
by pilimi_anna 4y ago
Holy shit! Did not see this coming, but glad we saved this collection just in time. (I'm Anna, the one who made the backup).
We are working on hosting this collection, as well as saving other large collections. Please consider supporting us, donation details at http://pilimi.org http://pilimi.org (we'll set up a patreon-like system soon)
- pilimi_anna 4y agoNote that their TOR domains are still up: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52fad.onion/ http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhembyd.onion/ http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...
- luiseduaguil 4y ago
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoThose domains are up, but downloading doesn't work right now, possibly because their CDN uses non-onion domain names. They're timing out.
- renonce 4y agoYou can use z-lib for the index and download the files on libgen
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoA work around for PDFs it to select "Open in Browser" from the download popup menu.
- SalimoS 4y agoDownload is working for me
- charondust 4y agoyes, and you can try to send the link to the email first and then download it in the email. It works.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoCan confirm, but has a 20MB (per book) limit.
- terrycody 4y agoSorry can you direct the how to method to us?
- lgoex11 4y agoThey stopped being active.
- dkjaudyeqooe 4y agoStill working for me.
- pilimi_anna 4y agoThe Library Genesis forum is also down, but more likely because of overwhelming interest right now? https://forum.mhut.org/ https://forum.mhut.org/
- voldacar 4y agoHow do you actually host something like this without being shut down, arrested, etc? Do you pay your server provider in bitcoin or something?
- ijkxyz 4y agoDo you backup user accounts and bookmarks too?
- pilimi_anna 4y agoSadly not yet.
- MVf4l 4y agoHi Anna, could you please confirm that your server and yourself are not under US jurisdiction?
- pilimi_anna 4y agoI will make no claims about my identity one way or another. If you are worried for me, don't be. If you are worried for yourself, then please take actions in line with your risk tolerance.
- psychphysic 4y agoMore likely they are worried about throwing their money away if the US now has a taste for takedowns.
- vanderZwan 4y agoAnna deserves/needs the support just as much if they have to deal with US takedowns though
- psychphysic 4y agoI disagree the community should get behind the most viable mechanisms to achieve its goal. Hosting in the US, by someone in the US is foolish if your goal is breaking US copyright laws.
- beanjuiceII 4y agothats good because i've already forwarded this to my superiors
- wholinator2 4y agoMaybe a naive question but assuming this isn't a troll, I'm curious why?
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- areoform 4y agoThank you so much for your efforts! I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it. Something that, - is resilient (can survive a nuclear explosion) - requires no power - doesn't require software to read/reboot from - (theoretically) lasts for at least 1 billion years Copying from the Long Now Foundation's projects, I think we can achieve these goals by miniaturizing pages and etching them on some metallic surface (a titanium alloy), depositing a layer of some resilient transparent material onto this surface, and creating multiple copies. A few copies for Earth. 2 or 3 for the Moon. And a few sent out of the solar system on probes like Voyager. Voyager itself is a great example of what we could achieve. The golden records were made out of stable, inert materials and Voyager’s trajectory doesn’t intersect with any known object for billions of years. The records themselves will be intact for at least two billion years according to one estimate. They are, for all intents and purposes, functionally immortal parcels of information. https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-distant-future https://www.space.com/predicting-voyager-golden-records-dist... Some simple math, if the pages could fit inside of a 10mm x 10mm square, then for a plate that's about the size of an average coffee table at 2' x 4', we could fit 7,432 pages. Assuming that we have 50 billion pages, we'd need about 6.7 million such plates to fit all of human knowledge, so far. It sounds crazy, but assuming we could get net costs per plate down to $500, each copy would be about $35M. Or, ~0.14% of an Uber. Alternatively, 0.002% of the F-35 program. That's doable! - 6.7 million plates will probably weigh a lot. So off-world copies might need to use an alternative encoding scheme. Another problem is likely to be organization of the plates/copies. The hardest part might be putting it all together in a way that can be trivially decoded by human descendants, even if they don't speak our language or share our subspecies. (apologies for any typos, it's very late at my end)
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- pilimi_anna 4y agohttps://archmission.org https://archmission.org is doing something like this. It's a super cool project, and they work with the Long Now Foundation, the Internet Archive, etc.
- mvkg 4y agoYou mirror Z-Library but don't support TLS on any of your sites. This seems like an odd choice. What is your threat model?
- primax 4y agoProbably 'I want to archive books'. Not 'I want end to end privacy for anyone clicking on my plain text site with a few torrent links.
- chaxor 4y agoTLS doesn't matter / isn't needed here right? The IP address is still in the header from what I understand. So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site. The fact that it's a plaintext website that doesn't change means that the exact same information is encoded in simply giving the IP address as there is in knowing that someone looked around the site - because there's nothing else to do? I would like to learn more about how I am wrong, if I am wrong.
- cesarb 4y ago> So the only thing https can hide is the content, such as a credit card or password that you enter into the site. TLS is not only for hiding the content, it's also for authentication: it ensures that no malicious middle party can modify the content, for instance to inject malicious Javascript (for an example of this happening, read about the "Great Cannon" attack on GitHub).
- candreasen 4y agoIt also hides what URLs you visited. Depending how the hosting is implemented, just being able to see the IP, or even the domain name, wouldn't show what you were doing, but if it's in plaintext, they can see exactly what pages were visited and files downloaded
- elashri 4y agoCare to add HTTPS support also?
- IceWreck 4y agoHey, why not push the collection (the extra books) back to libgen
- giancarlostoro 4y agoThis was my first question honestly and involves a lot less effort. Additionally working on a UI for libgen that is far better as an open source project might be worthwhile.
- onetokeoverthe 4y ago
- DoItToMe81 4y agoIf you're asking why Zlibrary didn't, it's because they got greedy and wanted to soak up donations that might go to Libgen by piggybacking off of their servers and having individual uploads for their own.
- joshxyz 4y agothank you for your work
- __jambo 4y agothankyou!
- pelasaco 4y agothank you for your work! > 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. What is the difference between what "z-library" was doing, which was "you download a lot for free, but if you need more, just pay us, because no internet bandwith is for free" from donations? I always understood the subscription at z-library as support, not different than patreon...
- pilimi_anna 4y agoThe Author's Guild and the Association of American Publishers made some handy lists for people who need Z-Library alternatives! https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0024 https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0024 https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0015 https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USTR-2022-0010-0015
- terrycody 4y agogood job anna!
- xwowsersx 4y agoForgive me, but I'm unclear on how I access the collection. I can just go to the torrent files as listed here: http://pilimi.org/zlib-downloads.html http://pilimi.org/zlib-downloads.html ? Is there a mirror where I can search for a particular book?