Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages"
Z-Library Blog: "Unprecedented seizure of our domains with books on rare languages"
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Today we are forced to share some sad news - yesterday many of our domains were seized again. We should highlight that the majority of the seized domains were not mirrors of the Z-Library website. Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world, and their blocking is perplexing. For instance, these domains included books in Tamil, Mongolian, Catalan, Urdu, Pashto, and other languages:
Over the 15 years of the project's existence, we've managed to collect an impressive collection of rare texts in many uncommon languages. These domains featured many unique texts that can't be found anywhere else, including rare books, documents, and manuscripts. All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.
Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains.
Imagine working on taking Z library down as your day job and still sleeping at night. Scum of the earth.
You know, funny thing, due to our values, if somebody says that he/she is going to be a police, or work on a government job, we appraise him:
- Good! You will sustain yourself with a stable salary, congrats again!
But in reality those people have to do what their management will tell them, and it's rarely the thing good for society, otherwise they will lose their job.
We should change our values.
Speak for yourself. ACAB.
I was just following orders
This eerily reminds of books burning.
It's more like if a landlord canceled the leases on a bunch of properties that a chain of privately owned libraries was renting.
"keep your books but you can't keep them here" in a way.
Well, the files are intact, it's "just" registrar douchiness. Not that that makes it good, by any stretch, but it's not all Alexandria either
Book burning bad, literally Roman style war crimes...
Given that domain seizure is becoming such a common tool for this sort of thing, maybe we need a work around for DNS?
For example, we could distribute z-library name/IP pairs in the form of a
hostsfile via torrents and then write little wrapper programs for each OS that would just crawl the DHT for the latest version to update your local hosts file.A more extreme option would be to build a pirate browser that has a bunch of name/IP pairs baked into it. People could just launch the browser and visit websites as usual without DNS being an issue.
I'm aware that using Tor is also an option, but there's a bunch of problems there with usability like installation and setup (for non-technical people). Onion URLs aren't easily discoverable either, and much of what you find in there just kids cosplaying as digital freedom fighters posting links that load really slowly... at least that was my experience the last time I tried out a TOR browser.
They can just do it like LibGen and post alternative domains and IPs on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis
The best solution I can think of is to have something like Tor.taxi
Bittorrent already doesn't depend on DNS. Any clown solution that depends on DDL will always be inferior to just straight up Bittorrent.
That is so so so dumb that it's actually impressive you decided to add on being a dick to top it off.
Although I agree that bit torrent is a good protocol, DDL is still a valuable method of maintaining mass accessibility, and an important aspect of transport as it requires next to no background skills or knowledge, it's also symbolic to the concept that many people simply do not believe piracy is necessarily a crime unless it turns a profit, or prevents or reduces a sale from occurring.
Why are libraries still existing despite all the wild cunt kings high on their own megalomania who've gone and burned libraries and attempted to destroy civilization?
Instead, they were separate sub-projects, containing only books in rare languages of the world
All of this is a priceless heritage, contributing to the preservation and study of world cultures, and serving as important material for researchers in linguistics, anthropology, and history.
I'd be curious to take a look once it comes back up
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I am sorry. But who is doing this and why?
.org/.net/.com domains are American so my guess is the same as the post author's – USA and the FBI. But they don't have a clue either why these specific domains were targeted. On the other hand, with the mess that is the DMCA and with copyright interests in the US being controlled by corporations it's not hard to imagine .org domains being blocked on a whim.
Copyright trolls, because they can. Maybe Z-library should do better so this cannot happen in the first place.
Ikr? What are we paying Z library so mu--
Hold on a second..
I couldn't find anything, just clicking around. Does z library not have a mechanism for others to make backups of its data? It looks like generally there are lots of limits around downloading, which makes sense. Most people need a handful of books. But without full data backups spread around multiple data hoarding nerds systems globally. When the inevitable day comes that the whole thing gets shut down they'll be nothing to bring back
Wouldn't it be possible to move the entire library into the dark web and leave just a few snorkels behind?
Or move it to a model similar to zeronet?
I didn't know Zlibrary was still up. I got too confused when they went down and was never sure how to get back in. Ended up paying pocket for the remainder of my textbooks.
With the Z-Lib app (v1.10.1(17) atm) you can get 10 daily downloads without signing up.
You can use Annas Archive as alternative. More content.
They're still up, but you have to pay a subscription to download. At least that's what the webisode I found said.
Did torrents become extinct? Or even something like ipfs?
Torrents aren't a great option for a niche thing that doesn't have a wide audience.
You can find torrents here if you're willing to seed 181TB for the full dataset, or 43TB for just zlibrary https://annas-archive.org/torrents
Torrents suck for things that aren't all that popular. Once the last seeder stops seeding, that torrent is useless.
I once left a torrent on for ~three years at 50%, obviously no one seeded that anymore. one day i realised it was completed, and i have no idea when. now i only streamed my high sea amusements, i don't even have a torrent client on anymore, but i like to think that the three copies seeded from mine (based on uploaded data) is still out there somewhere.
torrents can definitely die. no seeders = no life.
Is it still possible to get personal domains working? I know they had them before but not sure if they still do
I really hope they have backups.
Z-Library also states in the blog post that they did not lose the files, just the domains
Thank God
Nothing in here is as perplexing as dumbasses behind Z-library not "hosting" their files on Usenet and Bittorrent to ensure that this can't be blocked unless feds turn off internet globally.
Heads up, this guy is a troll picking fights for no reason. Don't try to engage him, he only replies with deflection and insults. Check out his profile
Oh wow, no joke. Let's try this blocking feature then
I mean their stuff is all there, you could upload it for them