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I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?

by dtx1 4y ago

WastingMyTime89 4y ago
They are outside the US jurisdiction. The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors.
- roel_v 4y ago
  "The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors. " Like where? Zlibrary wasn't open for 'official' mirrors in the first place, and the 'unofficial mirror' hasn't had any seeders for its torrents since at least the seizure of the domains last week.
  - JustSomeNobody 4y ago
    There's a person who comments on some of the z-lib posts and they are the ones who archived z-lib (and some other sites). If I can find it, I'll edit this comment. Here. Her name is Anna. http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html http://pilimi.org/ http://pilimi.org/
    - roel_v 4y ago
      Yah I know, it's the torrents on that site I was talking about.
  - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
    Zibrary is/was essentially a different frontend for libgen content. If you look for libgen archives, it is indeed mirrored.
    - roel_v 4y ago
      No it's not. Well it started out that way, but libgen is 7TB, zlibrary added another 16TB to that, which was not shared in the way libgen is.
      - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
        The core of Libgen is indeed 33TB. No idea where you get your 7TB from. The content difference between it and zlibrary is marginal from what I understand.
        roel_v 4y ago
        http://pilimi.org/zlib.html http://pilimi.org/zlib.html
        pgalvin 4y ago
        Including fiction (but excluding the scihub mirror, and comics), Libgen is actually about ~60TB. Z-Library mirrors this, and adds about ~24TB exclusive to them.
    - DoItToMe81 4y ago
      Maybe 80% of it is. Zlibrary, rather greedily, accepts its own individual uploads and does not mirror them to libgen anymore. Probably due to their monetization policies.
jbotz 4y ago
They are located in territories that are not friendly to US "glowies". Also, they tried that with Pirate Bay which was on glowie-friendly territory (Sweden, ever happy to lick US jack-boots) but it just became a game of whack-a-mole they couldn't win.

I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?

by dtx1 4y ago

I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?

WastingMyTime89 4y ago

They are outside the US jurisdiction. The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors.

roel_v 4y ago
"The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors. " Like where? Zlibrary wasn't open for 'official' mirrors in the first place, and the 'unofficial mirror' hasn't had any seeders for its torrents since at least the seizure of the domains last week.
- JustSomeNobody 4y ago
  There's a person who comments on some of the z-lib posts and they are the ones who archived z-lib (and some other sites). If I can find it, I'll edit this comment. Here. Her name is Anna. http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html http://annas-blog.org/blog-introducing.html http://pilimi.org/ http://pilimi.org/
  - roel_v 4y ago
    Yah I know, it's the torrents on that site I was talking about.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  Zibrary is/was essentially a different frontend for libgen content. If you look for libgen archives, it is indeed mirrored.
  - roel_v 4y ago
    No it's not. Well it started out that way, but libgen is 7TB, zlibrary added another 16TB to that, which was not shared in the way libgen is.
    - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
      The core of Libgen is indeed 33TB. No idea where you get your 7TB from. The content difference between it and zlibrary is marginal from what I understand.
      - roel_v 4y ago
        http://pilimi.org/zlib.html http://pilimi.org/zlib.html
      - pgalvin 4y ago
        Including fiction (but excluding the scihub mirror, and comics), Libgen is actually about ~60TB. Z-Library mirrors this, and adds about ~24TB exclusive to them.
  - DoItToMe81 4y ago
    Maybe 80% of it is. Zlibrary, rather greedily, accepts its own individual uploads and does not mirror them to libgen anymore. Probably due to their monetization policies.

jbotz 4y ago

They are located in territories that are not friendly to US "glowies". Also, they tried that with Pirate Bay which was on glowie-friendly territory (Sweden, ever happy to lick US jack-boots) but it just became a game of whack-a-mole they couldn't win.