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Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

8t88t8tttt8 wrote: post #8

There is no chance that I would risk this. I would gladly donate several Terabytes of seeding if this possible in a secure and _anonymous_ network.

you could probably seed over clear in the first go and then actual long term seeding over tor to protect you

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by kristofferR »

holibops wrote: post #2

It would be nice if we could read these books online rather than having to download a file and find some sort of reading app for it. Like, what am I supposed to do with an "azw3" file? And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk?

Azw3 is main Kindle format, the best viewer apps for them are Calibre or even the official Kindle app.

It does have previews for PDFs, better formats aren't easily displayed in a browser.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by pyinstallwoes »

bheadmaster wrote: post #5
chmike wrote: post #4

Z-library is used for steeling author's work. Does IPFS want to support it ? z-library is not equivalent to sci-hub.

Copying is not stealing. Stealing removes the original, copying leaves the original intact.

So when you copy answers on a test, that is seen as valid by the teachers because the other person's answers are intact; correct?

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by snvzz »

8t88t8tttt8 wrote: post #8

There is no chance that I would risk this. I would gladly donate several Terabytes of seeding if this possible in a secure and _anonymous_ network.

It is possible to run ipfs behind tor.

And I'd argue it is the right way to do so.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by snvzz »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #13
bheadmaster wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copying is not stealing. Stealing removes the original, copying leaves the original intact.

So when you copy answers on a test, that is seen as valid by the teachers because the other person's answers are intact; correct?

Cheating on a test is not stealing either. It's cheating.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by angio »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #13
bheadmaster wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copying is not stealing. Stealing removes the original, copying leaves the original intact.

So when you copy answers on a test, that is seen as valid by the teachers because the other person's answers are intact; correct?

As you said, you "copy" the answer, you don't "steal" it.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by pentachoron »

pyinstallwoes wrote: post #13
bheadmaster wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Copying is not stealing. Stealing removes the original, copying leaves the original intact.

So when you copy answers on a test, that is seen as valid by the teachers because the other person's answers are intact; correct?

If you gave credit to the source of the answers... then most teachers would just not give you the marks for the bits you copied. The cheating here is faking attribution - claiming yourself as a source of something you didn't originate, not copying - a legally and morally distinct thing to copyright infringement. Indeed, part of the point of copyright infringement is that you do know (and reveal to your clients) who made the thing you're copying, which is why it has value.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by psychphysic »

Still no meaningful promises around the safety or effectiveness of this.

Seems like this will get many people a love letter from their ISP.

Not worth the hassle with no idea of if this will work in even the medium term.

Re: Help seed Z-Library on IPFS

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Post by constantcrying »

holibops wrote: post #2

It would be nice if we could read these books online rather than having to download a file and find some sort of reading app for it. Like, what am I supposed to do with an "azw3" file? And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk?

In all likelihood the book you are looking for is available as a .pdf

The "best" format for reading books is epub, as it is an opwn format which does not try to adapt a paper format. There are many free readers available for it.

>And do I really want evidence of piracy sitting on my hard disk?

If your house gets raided by law enforcement, charges for minor copyright infringement should be of absolutely zero concern to you.

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