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IPFS provides the same privacy guarantees as bittorrent (i.e. none). Use a VPN.

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...

Fortunately someone had the foresight to make a backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923 Z-library were in it for commercial gain (you could access a certain number of…

It actually doesn't work so well, unfortunately. Picture this: 3 million books, at least one CID each (in practice it's often multiple, since the libgen collection uses a chunk siz…

IPFS is a protocol like bittorrent. The only way to make content inaccessible is to go after the people/computers that are sharing that content.

All of library genesis is already available on IPFS (see https://freeread.org/ and https://libgen.fun/dweb.html ). Hopefully someone will import this collection into libgen and the…

This is nice and all, but there's no valid justification for any of the material in the digital library to be locked behind a paywall in the first place. Most of the research publi…

The reason why they've stopped temporarily is due to an ongoing court case in India initiated by Elsevier. I'm not sure this is the best article on the case but basically sci-hub a…

The academic world is too entrenched in the established order, and while many inside it would agree with you, the incentive structures in place often work against individual action…

Correct. Library genesis itself (see https://libgen.rs/ or https://libgen.fun/ ) is run by volunteers on a strictly non-commercial basis and does not charge for access or accounts.…