Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)

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Post by ValentineC » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:39 PM UTC

Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
pilimi.org

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Post by metadat » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:50 PM UTC

Please don't flag it this time. Folks deserve the option to at least be aware of it and decide for themselves if they wish to pursue it.

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:52 PM UTC

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site.

They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

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Post by uniqueuid » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:53 PM UTC

It's really funny to think about how the advances of technology keeps changing how we perceive books.

7TB is even a commodity disk these days. And it's a lot less than the torrent of scientific papers that floated around some time ago (that was ~18TB IIRC).

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Post by generalizations » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:54 PM UTC

I wonder if there are any search engines dedicated to indexing these kinds of libraries. I know there's a decent one just for scihub, but it would be awesome if I could do a Google-style search that returned the contents of books, magazines and journal articles instead of just websites.

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Post by yeetsFromHellL3 » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

metadat wrote: post #2

Please don't flag it this time. Folks deserve the option to at least be aware of it and decide for themselves if they wish to pursue it.

No post body was provided.

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Post by quazar » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site. They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:57 PM UTC

Your movie recommendations suck, ValentineC ;)

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Post by ac0lyte » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

quazar wrote: post #7

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site. They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

Trust?

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Post by SquareWheel » Sun, Jul 03, 2022, 8:59 PM UTC

quazar wrote: post #7

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #3

HTTP-only makes me weary of visiting a self-professed piracy site. They couldn't even spring for a Let's Encrypt cert?

It's a read only blog with 2 pages. What do you gain for putting this over HTTPS?

Do you really want your ISP to know which piracy sites you frequent? This is all being sent in plain text. Or they could change the content, insert a redirect, or inject ads without your knowledge. TLS is needed on all websites - not just those with interaction.