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

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Post by carrolldunham » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:39 AM UTC

jrm4 wrote: post #124

Again, it's just insane to me that we don't even much have a meaningful discussion of: "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things. At least one in every town that everyone could use, for free, forever, without restriction to ANY of the knowledge…

"The African economy will start booming once they get UNLIMITED access to those 1800s manuals on measuring the Ether and where the best seal clubbing sites are in Alaska." Nobody ever thinks this through. Books are basically worthless at this point

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

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Post by culi » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:46 AM UTC

Brian_K_White wrote: post #136

jrm4 wrote: post #124

Again, it's just insane to me that we don't even much have a meaningful discussion of: "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things. At least one in every town that everyone could use, for free, forever, without restriction to ANY of the knowledge…

Insane in the abstract, but not exactly unfathomable. Who would make money off of that, and who else makes money off of it's absense?

Society as a whole. Exactly the kind of initiatives governments are supposed to be taking. Instead our governments are totally captured by the profit-seeking organizations and are hellbent on using their monopoly of violence to imprison activists working on these initiatives

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

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:57 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #120

I see things like this, and I wonder why the following software doesn't exist: I want a piece of software to which I can add a collection of files, say multiple TB. The software will then behave a bit like a BitTorrent tracker, and know which peer has which files. A peer joining this swarm will be able to say "I want to donate X GB of space", and the tracker would tell it "OK, then download and seed these files, whic…

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

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Post by klipt » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 2:58 AM UTC

UkrainianJew wrote: post #111

b112 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't imagine a life at google. So much promise, all turned to ash.

More like an ad company driven by dark patterns that needs to pretend being good and nice and innovative as otherwise it will lose goodwill just like Facebook did.

I think the Google founders were inherently nicer people than the Facebook founder, but their companies ended up converging on advertising because that's really the only way their products could be profitable.

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

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Post by jmprspret » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:01 AM UTC

betwixthewires wrote: post #115

UkrainianJew wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That would paint a huge red target mark on filecoin's back, given that they raised over a quarter-billion. They would take it down faster than you can have an 8TB HDD shipped to you.

They can't take it down.

so you're telling me there's CSAM on IPFS that feds "can't" take down? Somehow I doubt that.

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

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Post by jmprspret » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:02 AM 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?

Use Tor to access the site then. There was a post here like a day or so ago about how Tor onion site operators were deanonymised due to their TLS certs for their clearnet mirrors.

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

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Post by MegaDeKay » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:09 AM UTC

natrys wrote: post #96

delusional wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wasn't that what google books was supposed to be?

Does anyone know of a good FOSS alternative for google books that could be self-hosted (for personal library)?

Does Calibre fit the bill? The program itself is great, but it supports a plugin system that really puts it over the top. One of them automagically strips off Adobe DRM for any book loaded in to it.

https://calibre-ebook.com/

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

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Post by terrycody » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:15 AM UTC

dkjaudyeqooe wrote: post #21

To be fair, Z-Library doesn't charge unless you want to download more than 10 books per 24 hour period. That's per account and although they ask you not to open multiple accounts they don't seem to do anything to stop you.

yes you are right, and due to this, I highly doubt how long they can maintain the service, hope it can lasts a long time...(though its illegal)

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

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Post by dietr1ch » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:16 AM UTC

jrm4 wrote: post #124

Again, it's just insane to me that we don't even much have a meaningful discussion of: "Hey, wait, literally everyone could have the entire library of Alexandria in their house for a couple hundred bucks per person. Like, all the knowledge ever. Maybe that should be considered the good default of things. At least one in every town that everyone could use, for free, forever, without restriction to ANY of the knowledge…

The best we can do is a library where you can rent pdfs.

I still can't understand why can't every public library host media that should be free and easy to get.

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

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Post by WhoIsSatoshi » Mon, Jul 04, 2022, 3:22 AM UTC

stavros wrote: post #120

I see things like this, and I wonder why the following software doesn't exist: I want a piece of software to which I can add a collection of files, say multiple TB. The software will then behave a bit like a BitTorrent tracker, and know which peer has which files. A peer joining this swarm will be able to say "I want to donate X GB of space", and the tracker would tell it "OK, then download and seed these files, whic…

I keep thinking in my mind this makes sense but then ponder about the "local" impact - what would a user "donating space" be storing locally and might risk? Where does the risk lay, is it with the uploader, the seeder, or the service provider? I would love to see this pickup but it feels as though it would devolve into one of the listed projects. It "sounds" as though it should use some kind of Distributed Ledger Technology, IPFS seem the most fit, maybe some kind of next layer that offers just this service (IPFS being GDPR compliant might mitigate some risk?)