Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
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#2I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. With prices often exceeding $100.
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#3I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. Wit…
It would have been a godsend when I was still academic. This and sci-hub.
The way they eviscerated the service makes clear that in general we need more robust web services. Tor is not ideal for this, onions are excellent and fill their niche really well.
But we need something simpler here.
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#4I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. Wit…
It would have been a godsend when I was still academic. This and sci-hub. The way they eviscerated the service makes clear that in general we need more robust web services. Tor is not ideal for this, onions are excellent and fill their niche really well. But we need something simpler here.
What is needed is a strong government for the people, by the people. Without that, it really doesn't matter what tech you can cobble together.
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#5I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#6I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?
They are outside the US jurisdiction.
The full archive is also not that big (~30TB) so they are plenty of mirrors.
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#7I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. Wit…
One professor would hand out detailed sheets covering the differences between editions for anyone who had older ones, allowing a large range to be used.
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#8I don't understand how zlibrary can still be up though. If the glowies can seize the domains can't they also seize the servers hosting the data?
They are located in territories that are not friendly to US "glowies". Also, they tried that with Pirate Bay which was on glowie-friendly territory (Sweden, ever happy to lick US jack-boots) but it just became a game of whack-a-mole they couldn't win.
Re: Z-Library Aftermath Reveals the Feds Seized Dozens of Domain Names
#9I've personally used sites like this as a sort of protest to what universities and authors did to the textbook market. You used to be able to buy used physical textbooks for classes at reasonable prices. They took advantage of the shift to digital by forcing arbitrary changes in edition numbers, solely to sell more books, or by requiring obscure, low-volume books, often written by the professor leading the class. Wit…
It would have been a godsend when I was still academic. This and sci-hub. The way they eviscerated the service makes clear that in general we need more robust web services. Tor is not ideal for this, onions are excellent and fill their niche really well. But we need something simpler here.
aren't tor and onion pairs,why one not ideal while another excellent? confused.
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#10Such a need for a service like z-library, the outside world sales prices does not make sense in my country, where the price of an ebook is equal to my half a month salary.