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Millions of penniless students worldwide have accessed impossibly expensive or unavailable books from ZLibrary to complete their University and Phd degrees, later finding jobs and buying their own documents.
As with music, some ‘piracy’ actually promotes the industry, no one wants to spend 100’s of dollars on a book without even seeing the pdf first.
Far from the US crafting a creative compromise the unilateral FBI’s seizure of ZLibrary’s domains is another stupid act of Capitalist Censure and Sanctions that sabotages culture and human civilization.
ZLibrary will survive via mirror sites and copies, of course, but access may complicated and crippled and risky.
see also: 19 Best Torrent Sites to Download Free eBooks in 2021
Multiple web domains belonging to popular free ebook resource ZLibrary were seized by the FBI on Friday after the shadow library fell under investigation by the US Trade Representative.
Z-lib.org, b-ok.org, 3lib.net and other domains were taken offline, redirecting to a graphic declaring they had been seized by the FBI in partnership with the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. While ZLibrary’s darknet domain was still accessible as of Sunday, it carried an error message above the search bar.
The site held some 220 terabytes worth of information, much of it copyrighted and all of it free to access. As of September, about 11 million books and 84 million articles were available.
Horrified users likened the seizure to the burning of the Library of Alexandria – before trading suggestions for alternate platforms to use, such as free library Libgen. ZLibrary has been collecting content since 2009, when it began as a Libgen mirror. However, users soon began adding their own documents, meaning much of the content is likely to be unavailable outside ZLibrary – and certainly unavailable for free.
Beloved by students, who seldom have the funds to dump on expensive textbooks or pricey academic journal subscriptions, ZLibrary eventually gained a devoted following on TikTok – much to the dismay of the Authors Guild, a writers’ trade group. The Guild blames digital piracy for an average decline of 42% in writers’ incomes over the last decade.
After the Guild wrote to the US Trade Representative earlier this month referencing TikTok in its plea to have ZLibrary classified as a “notorious market” for promoting piracy, the platform blocked the #ZLibrary hashtag.
Some 200 domains associated with ZLibrary were ordered blocked in France in September following a lawsuit by the National Publishing Union, and multiple Indian ISPs were previously ordered to block access following a complaint by the Taxmann publishing company.
According to Bleeping Computer, however, “little is known about the platform’s operators and commercial status,” meaning ZLibrary may simply switch domains and rise again.
Some of the domains have been redirected to Njalla, an anonymous hosting provider founded by the creator of the Pirate Bay, though it’s not clear how ZLibrary’s operators could have regained control of their domains following the seizure.
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We’d also like to address some of the comments here asking “how do I extract a book from this data”. r/DataHoader isn’t a piracy supporting subreddit, a guide on how to extract books from these archives was purposefully left out.
These torrents are presented as a preservation only archive and are not meant to aid book piracy or add books to your curated collections.
Once upon a time in this sub this explanation wouldn’t have been necessary. The thread will be cleaned and comment locked.
Original Thread
Millions woke up to news today that Z-Library domains have been seized, cries that z-lib is gone were heard from red core to black sky!… but that’s not really the case so here is what you, a humble datahoarder can do about it.
In case you missed it a unique to z-lib (deduped against LibGen) backup was made and published by u/pilimi_anna a little over a month ago. While you did a great job with SciHub, there’s still work be done to ensure the preservation of all written works and cultural heritage. So here is the 5,998,794 book 27.8TB z-lib archive for you to hold, hoard, preserve, seed and proliferate.
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Closing
Support authors you love.. But abolish the strangle hold of DRM and licensing that kills ownership, seek to squash abuse of the DMCA, move to limit copyright terms and above all aim to ensure Alexandria doesn’t burn twice.
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crisper
Whack a mole, it will be back tomorrow
No2WarStupid
Would it be possible if the website hosting free books for download allow advertising in those books. Before yiu can read or download you will see commercials. The ad revenue goes to the authors and web host. That way we get free download and the authors gets paid for their work by the advertisers. It’s a win win win situation.
Crassus
I bought a lot of books after trying them out on z-lib. I simply don’t buy without looking at the pdf first. I guess a lot of authors have lost me as a customer. Maybe they don’t care about one individual, but there are many buyers out there like me. What a great loss for everyone.
Strelnikovian
One young boy, I think 13 years of age, has been sentenced in the British courts to prison on a terrorist charge for downloading the library.
MadMullah
Since the advent of Internet information and knowledge will always be available and for free. The horse has long ago bolted
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On Nov. 1, Pfizer issued a press release about an investigational vaccine for pregnant women the company said will protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).
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Buoyed by the successful global marketing of its COVID-19 jabs — an estimated 49% of pregnant women worldwide reportedly views the vaccines favorably and almost 1 in 4 pregnant women in the U.S. took them — Pfizer is hoping to hit another home run with the RSV vaccine.
The vaccine maker said…
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